I'm trying to create a diskless client using Slack 10 and the
2.6.7 kernel. I installed the following kernel packages:

bash-2.05b# cd /cdrom/testing/packages/linux-2.6.7
bash-2.05b# installpkg alsa-driver-1.0.5a_2.6.7-i486-1
bash-2.05b# installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.7-i486-2
bash-2.05b# installpkg kernel-generic-2.6.7-i486-1
bash-2.05b# installpkg kernel-source-2.6.7-noarch-1

The install scripts created the proper links to the 2.6.7 kernel,
so I proceeded with the following set of commands:

bash-2.05b# cd /usr/src/linux
bash-2.05b# cp /boot/config .config

bash-2.05b# make oldconfig

scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/linux/Kconfig
can't find file arch/linux/Kconfig
make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
make: *** [oldconfig] Error 2


bash-2.05b# make menuconfig

scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/linux/Kconfig
can't find file arch/linux/Kconfig
make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1
make: *** [oldconfig] Error 2

Has anyone else run into this problem?

thanks in advance,

Mike

i would guess that its because your using a 2.4 series .config on a 2.6
series kernel. do make proper and start again

also, now to compile the kernel its this:

make mrproper (optional)
make menuconfig (or xconfig or gconfig or oldconfig or config)
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

Matthew Robinson <mattyrobinson69@hotmail.com> wrote:
> i would guess that its because your using a 2.4 series .config on a 2.6
> series kernel. do make proper and start again
>
> also, now to compile the kernel its this:
>
> make mrproper (optional)

Makefile:450: /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/linux/Makefile: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.6.7/arch/linux/Makefile'. Stop.

> make menuconfig (or xconfig or gconfig or oldconfig or config)
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install

I don't know if this has anything to do with this?

bash-2.05b# uname -m
i686

and I noticed that there is no i686 under the arch directory.

thanks,

Mike

* Matthew Robinson <mattyrobinson69@hotmail.com> writes:

> also, now to compile the kernel its this:

[...]

> make bzImage
> make modules

These 2 can be combined by doing a simple `make'. Do `make help' to
see.


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Solved!

bash-2.05b# export ARCH=i386
bash-2.05b# make oldconfig
bash-2.05b# make menuconfig
[...]

thanks



Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com> wrote:
> * Matthew Robinson <mattyrobinson69@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > also, now to compile the kernel its this:
>
> [...]
>
> > make bzImage
> > make modules
>
> These 2 can be combined by doing a simple `make'. Do `make help' to
> see.
>
>