Compiling and Installing the 2.6.9

[opensourceguy]

Well guys, I have reached the end of my "testing" stage of learning linux.. and I am currently backing up all my files on the dreaded windoze box. Now, the only thing left, is kernel compiling and installing. I want to put on the 2.6.9 kernel on this system, and then, I know I will be capable of putting Linux on my main system. So, how do I do it? I already have the kernel source.. but I can't find any documentation, so of course, this is where I turn to you guys .


-justin

[Stalin]

http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...ild-HOWTO.html
Or shorter: make mrproper && make menuconfig && make && make modules_install

[kyku]

Well now, it seems easy but I guess you'll have do to several attempts at this. Configuring options tends to be messy... Don't get frustrated if you don't get everything working at the first time.

[Megatron]

I usually do a

make;make install;make modules;make modules_install;make bzImage;make bzlilo; echo ALL IS DONE!

The echo part is just a simple way of telling me that it went through all stages. LOL

I had some problems on 2.6.9... sync out-of-ranges, emu10k1 stopped working(And yeah... I added that part), so I went back to 2.6.8.1 .

But my Shell Resolution sucks... it's at 640x480x256 ...with a big font(hate them) And I don't remember how to change it. Any ideas ?

[the anti-genre]

I usually do a

make;make install;make modules;make modules_install;make bzImage;make bzlilo; echo ALL IS DONE!

The echo part is just a simple way of telling me that it went through all stages. LOL

I had some problems on 2.6.9... sync out-of-ranges, emu10k1 stopped working(And yeah... I added that part), so I went back to 2.6.8.1 .

But my Shell Resolution sucks... it's at 640x480x256 ...with a big font(hate them) And I don't remember how to change it. Any ideas ?

enable frame buffer support in the kernel compilation
device drivers > graphic support
section then edit grub or lilo.conf and change vga= to whatever you want

[kyku]

But my Shell Resolution sucks... it's at 640x480x256 ...with a big font(hate them) And I don't remember how to change it. Any ideas ?

Look at http://bootsplash.org/ to have a patch that will embellish you console.

[valan]

The README file is the ONLY place to start. Readmes are there for a very good reason. It is in the directory where the source untarred to.