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Re: make zImage, not make zimage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Tue Nov 17 19:48:49 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:46:39 -0000
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*smacks his forehead* We are all corrupted by the ways of case
insensitivity.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave <DGMDGM@INAME.COM>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 12:37 AM
Subject: make zImage, not make zimage
>At 10:41 AM 11/17/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >Try rpm -ivh --force kernel-yyyyyyy-x.x.xx-x.i386.rpm
> >
> >WARNING:
> >This may fix the problem of you having removed manually the source tree
>from
> >a RPM install but not the problem you first encountered.
> >
> >The steps for compiling a kernel are:
> >
> >make mrproper
> >make menuconfig (or config or xconfig)
> >make dep ; make clean
> >make zImage (or bzImage on 2.0.34 kernels and later)
>
>Thank you all very much for the help with my RPM problem. Slowly but surely
>I am learning how it all works. But you where right, that did not solve my
>original problem.
>
>After reading your instructions and trying them a number of times I
>realized what I was doing wrong.... This is UNIX.... Caps count!!! make
>zimage is not the same as make zImage!
>
>Just thought I would post this reminder for other newbies on the list. Read
>the instructions very carefully. I didn't and I wasted four or five hours
>as a result.
>
>I would also like to thank Paul for a very concise and easy to read set of
>instructions for compiling a new kernel. It would be nice if the Howto had
>an appendix showing these basic steps in the same concise form.
>
>Once again, thanks for the help.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
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