Subject: Re: Please Help
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 15:03:27 MST
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Iain Stevenson wrote:
> on 29/10/00 8:54 pm, Tony Yazbeck at tyazbeck@bigfoot.com wrote:
>
> > Thanks, but how and where do we check the kernel?
>
> When you start up you'll get a message giving the kernel version - at a
> guess it's 2.2.16. The kernel that comes with Yellowdog is modified from
> the standard distribution.
Yellow Dog *is* the distribution, but I know what you mean - there are
some patches in the YDL kernel that are not in "standard" trees.
Tony's problems didn't sound like they could be kernel-related though...
For example, how could the standard YDL kernel not include iso9660 support
when the YDL CD is in iso9660?
Sound is also there, though it's compiled in as a module. Accordingly,
he'll need to follow the directions listed on the web page and sent by
someone else in an earlier mail.
> You can get new kernel source code from www.kernel.org. Download this and
> unzip it - it should appear in a folder named "linux". Do a "cd linux"
> followed by "make xconfig" - that'll create a kernel configuration utility.
> However, before going any further you must read up about kernel
> configuration!
I would recommend rsync'ing linux-pmac-stable. With older machines it's
probably not that big a deal, but with most New World machines there are
enough fixes and enhancements in the PPC-specific trees to be worth your
time. Besides, if something goes wrong people will know what you're
talking about (rather than "well that's kernel.org - you're on your own
there").
Brief rsync directions can be found at http://penguinppc.org/dev. But
again, in this particular case I think the default YDL kernel should be
fine.
-Hollis
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