RE: what file?

[Hank Hagquist <hankster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As I had explained at the meeting on Tuesday, I did read the howtos, the
docs and a FAQ or two on how to do it. After printing out each of these and
taking about 4 or 5 hours to read them, I came away more confused then I
started. Call me dense or whatever, but the vast majority of them don't
make much sense to this person that does not know his way around Unix well.
For those that have used it for years, it may seem the howtos answer all,
to me they just confuse things even more. I suppose at some point I will
get to where I can make heads or tails of them, right now I can't. I just
figured the KLUG mailing list was a place to get answers if I can't figure
out what the howtos, docs and faqs mean.

Thanks to all that helped, I'll digest this some tonight and see what I
come up with.

Hank

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, John Beimler rambled on about:
> Try looking around on the net before posting here.There is a TON of information
> on the net, usually too much, but if you look around, you will find it.  Also
> try /usr/doc on your system.  There is a lot of documentation there also.
> 
> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP has a kernel howto.  
> 
> There already was a pointer to this HOWTO, I can only assume you didn't read it
> the first time.
> 
> I am going to assume you are running redhat.  They have a manual on how to build
> a kernel at their web site.
> 
> if thats too much, try 
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make xconfig (in X)
>  -or-
> make menuconfig (in console mode)
> 
> if that does not work, you need to get the kernel sources.  look in the RPM
> directory on your cd for kernel-source*.rpm.  install it and repeat the above
> steps.  This has been documented.  Also, to use your scsi card, you should only
> need to load the module, unless you plan on booting from the scsi card.  Take
> a look at the modules section of the control-panel (again redhat) and load the
> scsi module there.
> 
> there is a redhat faq out there, at:
> 
> http://www.best.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/
> 
> If you are running a different distribution, try searching their site, they 
> should have instructions, compiling a kernel is a pretty standard thing.
> 
> I suggest that you research what you are doing more before posting to the list.
> The reason is, if you ask simple questions that are easily found in the 
> documentation, people are going to start ignoring your posts.  I can attest to
> that myself, when I was a newbie, I made the same mistake, and had a hard time
> getting anyones attention when I really needed help.
> 
> I would also suggest investing in a decent Linux book.  Go to the bookstore
> and find one that seems to cover what you need.  It will be better money spent
> than the purchase of your distribution.  
> 
> john
> 
> > OK, here is what seems to be happening. No where on the system can I find
> > xconfig or menuconfig. I did log in as root and searched the /usr/src/linux
> > directories and could find no .config file or any source codes. Is this
> > normal or what? Doesn't seem right.
> > 
> > I tried using whereis to find xconfig and menuconfig and it found nothing.
> > 
> > I did download the latest kernel as I figured I might as well update when I
> > finally get this all figured out.
> > 
> > But where do I need to go from here? On both cds that I have of Linux, I
> > could not find source code on either of them, nor could I find xconfig or
> > menuconfig.
> > 
> > Any ideas on where to go from here?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hank
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chris Strandt rambled on about:
> > > Goto the root of your kernel source files (most often /usr/src/linux)
> > > If you don't have the kernel source, download a copy from a kernel.org
> > > mirror and unzip them to /usr/src/linux
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Then run that command (while in X) and you will get a graphical menu system
> > > to configure your Kernel.
> > > 
> > > for example...
> > > 
> > > startx
> > > (Start an X-Term)
> > > cd /usr/src/linux
> > > make xconfig
> > > 
> > > save... then...
> > > 
> > > make dep
> > > make clean
> > > make zImage
> > > cd /lib/modules
> > > mv 2.0.36 2.0.36.old  *or what ever dir your modules currently are in*
> > > cd /usr/src/linux
> > > make modules
> > > make modules_install
> > > cd arch/i386/boot
> > > cp zImage /boot
> > > 
> > > 
> > > then re-config lilo for the new kernel (/etc/lilo.conf is what u want to
> > > look at) then run lilo and reboot.
> > > 
> > > -Chris
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hank Hagquist
> > > To: klug@klug.armintl.com
> > > Sent: 4/28/99 12:01 PM
> > > Subject: what file?
> > > 
> > > At the meeting on Tuesday I was asking about getting my SCSI card
> > > working
> > > and was told to run, what I thought was
> > > 
> > > make xconfig
> > > 
> > > but I have no xconfig file that I can find. What file do I need to make
> > > to
> > > configure my kernal?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Hank