[Lvlug] Kernel Compile for 2.6 Kernels

[Hanuman]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 jhigdon at linuxfools.org wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 03:49:47PM -0400, Hanuman wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 jhigdon at linuxfools.org wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:33:09PM -0400, Hanuman wrote:
>>>> http://thelinuxlink.net/~fingolfin/kernel-compile/
>>>>
>>>> It's a little VL-centric but you can probably work around that. I digress
>>>> at several points to explain background on aspects of PC hardware, why the
>>>> kernel does X or Y (I found out the story about SCSI emulation for CD
>>>> writers in 2.4). Tries to be pretty informative, and the one guy said it
>>>> was effing fantastic. One good review I guess.
>>>>
>>>> - Hanu-mizzle
>>>
>>>
>>> A cookie to who can tell me first why this:
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> su
>>> cp -R include/linux /usr/include
>>> cp -R include/asm-generic /usr/include
>>> cp -R include/asm-i386 /usr/include
>>> cd /usr/include
>>> ln -s asm-i386 asm
>>> exit
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Which was noted in the howto, is not good to do.
>>> This actually frightens me a bit.
>>
>> You need to install the 2.6 kernel headers. Ther's a package there, but
>> it seems to be fudged up. And that, frankly, is the simplest way of
>> doing it.
>>
>> - Hanu-mizzle
>
>
> Sadly, wrong. :( (sad face)

Ok...is there a better way?

- Hanu-mizzle