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Re: Kernel compilation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff)
Mon Nov 23 22:31:20 1998

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:34:10 -0500
From: Jeff <strider@acm.org>
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Philip Tong wrote:
> 
> Is it possible for me to download the 2.0.36 kernel source from
> ftp.kernel.org and compile it and use off my RH 5.2 Linux box?

Yes.....

> 
> I tried doing so and when I did a reboot, there was a message about some
> missing 'signature file'. What have I done wrong?
> 
> Where can I get more information on the files located in the /boot
> directory?
> 

Not sure about the signature file thing.  Did you

make mrproper
make (x|menu|)config
make dep ; make clean
make boot
make modules
make modules_install
etc /etc/lilo.conf
/sbin/lilo
reboot

? 


Good luck.

Jeff

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