[ale] Foolish Distro ID Question

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 11:26:45 EST 2007


On 3/2/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 04:14:33 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > If you want a new (much less tested) kernel you can get the SUSE KOTD
> > (kernel of the day).
> >
> > http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD/
> I'd love to learn more about doing kernel makes & installs, but the
> documentation was geared toward installing a source RPM, which there doesn't
> seem to be one:
> from the README.SUSE:
>
> COMPILING YOUR OWN KERNEL
>
> The kernel sources are found in the kernel-source.$ARCH.rpm package. The
> recommended way to produce a binary kernel is:
>
>   (1)  Install kernel-source.$ARCH.rpm. Change to the /usr/src/linux
>        directory.
> -------------------------

I don't even see any kernel rpms there at all right now.  I think they
were there the other day.

I get the feeling they are shuffling things around or something.  Give
it another look around in a day or 2.

Greg
-- 
Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century



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