Rupert Heesom on Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:50:25 -0500


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[PLUG] Help with source after kernel update


Hi Greg / PLUG :

Sorry to bother you again, I'm on to new things now, but getting stuck.

I managed to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.17-14 using RPMs following a
HOWTO.

Part of the HOWTO specified installing RPMs for the source & headers.
This part I didn't do, since it said "only needed for developers".

Well, I run VMware, and need to configure it to run on the new kernel.
The VMware script is trying to build itself some modules from the source
code, but I don't think I have a correctly installed tree of source.

I did find the kernel-source-2.2.17-14 RPM, but there was no such
kernel-headers RPM for that version.   There is a headers RPM for
version 2.2.16.

Basically I'm trying to get the source tree sorted out so that I can get
VMware up and running again.

Previously I untarred the kernel source for 2.2.18 when I was thinking
of upgrading the kernel.

I'm really not sure what the /usr/src directory is supposed to look
like.  Currently mine looks like -

-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root     18130021 Feb  8 20:44
kernel-source-2.2.17-14.i386.rpm
drwxr-xr-x   15 523      523          4096 Feb  9 12:07 linux
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Feb  2 13:38 linux-2.2.14
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Feb  9 03:00 linux-2.2.17
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     17561308 Feb  9 12:06
linux-2.2.17.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     19090206 Feb  2 13:41
linux-2.2.18.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     24644981 Feb  2 13:36
linux-2.4.1.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Jul 22  2000 redhat

.....Looks a bit of a mess to me.   Would you mind advising on how I
should organise this....what to delete / install, etc?

-- 
regs
rupert


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