Re: So nice of you!

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> Dear Aivils Stoss:
> 
> Thank you so much for your comprehensive reply. However, everthing went
> smooth until I got errors while executing the 'make' command as stated
> below. Kindly guide! (I can send the entire script if required)
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:01:35 +0300
> Aivils <ai...@un...> wrote:
> 
> > > Respected Aivils Stoss:
> > > 
> > > Greetings from eParliament.org and the troubled section of the
> > > Himalayas!
> > > 
> > > I came across the http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead/ which directed
> > > me to your site http://startx.times.lv . As instructed by some
> > > gentlemen from
> > http://www.schuldei.org/aivils
> 
> I will visit your personal site too. :)
> 
> > > the C3SL project I was helped by a techie from a local ISP to
> > > acquire kernel2.4.25 in tar.gz format (it is absolutely impossible
> > > to download with a sluggish dial-up connection at my end).
> > > 
> > > I have encountered three queries as stated below and shall be
> > > obliged if you kindly bear the trouble of replying me
> > > comprehensively to this comparatively newbie linuxer.
> > > 
> > > QUERY I:
> > > 
> > > I just unarchived the tar.gz kernel into a linux-2.4.25 directory in
> > > a folder under my home directory (not root) and also archieved the
> > > bruby-2.4.25 patch in the same directory. I used the following
> > > command(not as root, but as file owner/user): patch -s -p0 <
> > > bruby-2.4.**.diff and I got the following which confused me.
> > > 
> > > $ patch -s -p0 < bruby-2.4.25-20040219.diff
> > > The text leading up to this was:
> > > --------------------------
> > > |diff -Nurp --exclude-from=excl24 linux-2.4.25/arch/i386/config.in
> > > linr/arch/i386/config.in|--- linux-2.4.25/arch/i386/config.in
> > > 2004-02-18 13:36:30.000000000 +0000|+++ linr/arch/i386/config.in
> > > 2004-02-19 13:25:37.000000000 +0000--------------------------
> > > File to patch:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Since I didn't know which file to patch and which not, I just hit
> > > the enter button and it asked me "Skip the file? [y]" and another
> > > instruction as above appeared. When I just kept on hitting enter
> > > button it kept on displaying "n out of n hunk/s ignrored" and again
> > > another text as above with a different text appeared.
> > 
> > Please read "man patch" :)
> > 
> > It should look like this
> > mydir/linux-2.4.25
> > mydir/bruby-2.4.25-20040219.diff
> > 
> > $ cd mydir
> > $ patch -s -p0 < bruby-2.4.25-20040219.diff
> 
> Thank you, now this step worked!
> 
> > 
> > You start previously patch from wrong directory.
> > 
> > > QUERY II
> > > 
> > > I also came across a config file (
> > > http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead/.config ) and don't know how to go
> > > about it while rebuilding the kernel.
> > 
> > This is detailed doc site
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/
> > 
> > Typicaly You read http://www.kernelnewbies.org
> > after You do
> > $ cd mydir/linux-2.4.25
> > $ make menuconfig
> > then You do exit immediately from "make menuconfig"  and You have
> > predefined config file$ make dep
> > $ make
> 
> But when I executed the 'make' command. It gave the following error
> almost at the end:
> 
> -frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586  
> -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=rd  -c -o rd.o rd.c
> rd.c:88: error: `CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE' undeclared here (not in a
> function) make[3]: *** [rd.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/drbista/multiuserpc/kernelsrc/linux-2.4.25/drivers/block'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/drbista/multiuserpc/kernelsrc/linux-2.4.25/drivers/block'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_block] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/drbista/multiuserpc/kernelsrc/linux-2.4.25/drivers' make: ***
> [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> 
> Do you recommend me to go further with the instructions below or do I
> need to make some modifications?

please try "make defconfig"

or maybe better use the configuration of your distribution
(and check it's documetation how to build a kernel)
and see http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html

> > 
> > please switch to "root"  user 
> > 
> > $ make install
> > $ make modules_install
> > You should read "man lilo.conf"  and add Your fresh compiled kernel
> > vi - simple text editor
> > $ vi /etc/lilo.conf
> > $ lilo
> > 
> > > QUERY III
> > > 
> > > Let me inform you that I have installed a FC1-based PCQLinux2004
> > >  (pcquest.com) in my machine and it has got 2.4.22-nptl and 2.6.2
> > > kernels in parallel. I also installed another kernel 2.4.18 to make
> > > my sm56 softmodem work (as instructed at http://www.sm56.tk).
> > > 
> > >   I know how to install a parallel kernel from rpm package ( rpm
> > > --ivh
> > man lilo.conf
> > >   kernel**.rpm --nodeps --force and then configure grub.conf. But I
> > > don't  know how to install a parallel 2.4.25 kernel from the tar.gz
> > > file without disturbing  other kernels in my machine.
> > 
> > In theory, Svetoslav Slavtchev <sv...@gm...> allready provide
> > precompiled kernels. If You have troubles with download, then I
> > doubt about Your capability download 20Mb rpm.
> > http://karlovo.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/ruby-contrib/
> 
> Does Mr. Slavtchev's precompiled kernel for 2.4.25 works fine without
> any patches and hitches? Sounds stupid question, but important for me as
> I am going to install it on a production-level machine (I don't have
> several machines, but the borrowed one so I want to add more
> consoles/heads to minimize the cost)

they work fine for me, and another guy in Israel with 3 4headed PC's
but i'm talking about a 2.6 based kernels
i've stoped working on 2.4 a long long time ago
there are 2.4.22 based kernels (binary rpms)
which should be pretty workable
but i'm afraid the 2.4 kernels wont work
on a redhat/fedora box, as the redhat kernels
are havily patched in an incompatible manner
although if you manage to get a vanilla kernel
you should be able to install and use my 2.4 kernels too

you can find my kernels @
linux-2.4 based : 
http://karlovo.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/ruby-contrib/wip/
linux-2.6 based :
http://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/svetljo/mandrake/10.0/RPMS/
http://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/svetljo/mandrake/kernel/RPMS/


best,

svetljo