Craig, I'm waiting for your answers too.  I tried to build a new RH 7.1
kernel to include IPX support but that portion's broken.  I found some
online discussion of it, including a kernel patch but it's not RH
specific.  IIRC, it's a fix for 2.4-3 instead of 2.4-2 (plus I've never
done kernel patch voodoo).

I think I can help with #4.  After I hose everything up, 'make mrproper'
*seems* to reset to the defaults.  

I've got a pretty sad record of getting a new kernel *and* the modules
to work.  I've occasionally just built everything I need into the
kernel.  I use the same build sequence, FWIW: make menuconfig followed
by  dep, clean, bzImage, modules, modules_install, install.  Also
experimented a bit with the linuxconf 'install new kernel' thing
followed by lilo instead of 'make install'.

I hope someday to find kernel docs starting with "If you follow these
instructions it will always work..." :-)

Steve

Craig White wrote:
> 
> boy - I am disappointed that I'm getting no traction on this. Most of the
> questions aren't specific to Redhat or the new 2.4 kernel. Aren't there
> people who are involved with compiling their own kernels on this list?  Are
> my questions to confused to make it easy enough to answer even some of them?
> 
> Craig
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> > White
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:54 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: More Kernel 2.4 Q's
> >
> >
> > Re: compiling 2.4 kernel / RH 7.1 but I don't know that it makes a
> > difference.
> >
> > 1. Do I install kernel-headers-XXX.rpm & kernel-XXX-i586.rpm (or whatever
> > for hardware) or do I have to also install kernel-i386.rpm also? I presume
> > that when these are installed, they install themselves in the
> > /usr/src tree.
> >
> > 2. Should I make a copy of the /usr/src tree to another tree and begin
> > compiling from there so I don't affect kernel already installed?
> >
> > 3. Appears that one of the mistakes that I made was not editing
> > the Makefile
> > BEFORE I did make bzImage. Will doing this automatically create a second
> > entry in lilo so that I have a means to go back to my original boot-kernel
> > if I screw up (and I will screw up).
> >
> > 4. If I want to wipe out the process and start all over, can I
> > simply rm -fr
> > /usr/src contents and reinstall kernel-headers et al. as in
> > Question 1 to go
> > back to ground zero?
> >
> > 5. Had problems with modularized kernels...tho I had selected modularized
> > kernels in make menuconfig, my make modules process would error on those
> > options I had selected "M" instead of "*" in the make menuconfig. Any clue
> > where I went wrong here?
> >
> > 6. My process was
> >  - make menuconfig
> >  - make dep
> >  - make clean
> >    (apparently I should have changed the "VERSION" here in the Makefile)
> >  - make bzImage
> >  - make modules
> >  - make modules_install
> >
> >  and finally
> >
> >  - make install
> >
> >  run lilo (though it seemed that make install did that).
> >
> > Is am missing any steps here?
> >
> > 7. Seemed that because I didn't change the "VERSION" in the Makefile, my
> > modules were hosed when I tried to go back to boot original
> > kernel/boot. Is
> > there some safeguard to protect the modules so I can boot from either or
> > should that occur normally?
> >
> > 8. If I just want to recompile kernel as originally shipped by RedHat but
> > with one or two alterations (like my desire to add ipmasqadm to ipchains
> > functionality), will my adding the ipmasqadm source to the
> > /usr/src tree and
> > running make menuconfig take it's options from RedHat's original
> > distribution choices or does make menuconfig start up with it's
> > own defaults
> > and I am left to my own devices to know exactly what I want?
> >
> > Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to enlighten some the of the dark
> > areas of my knowledge base.
> >
> > Craig
> 
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