October 12, 2009
Posted in Installations, Misc
KERNEL RECOMPILATION
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Mainly 2 purposes:
1. Reduce the size of the kernel
2. Activation and deactivation of support for devices.
Packages to be checked when upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6
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o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc –version
o Gnu make 3.77 # make –version
o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v
o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat –version
o modutils 2.4.2 # insmod -V
o e2fsprogs 1.19 # tune2fs
o reiserfsprogs 3.x.0b # reiserfsck 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs
o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V
o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd –version
o isdn4k-utils 3.1pre1 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
2.6.x series
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o Gnu C 2.95.3 # gcc –version
o Gnu make 3.78 # make –version
o binutils 2.12 # ld -v
o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat –version
o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V
o e2fsprogs 1.29 # tune2fs
o jfsutils 1.1.3 # fsck.jfs -V
o reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 # reiserfsck -V 2>&1|grep reiserfsprogs
o xfsprogs 2.1.0 # xfs_db -V
o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V
o quota-tools 3.09 # quota -V
o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd –version
o isdn4k-utils 3.1pre1 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
o nfs-utils 1.0.5 # showmount –version
o procps 3.1.13 # ps –version
o oprofile 0.5.3 # oprofiled –version
Determine Current Hardware
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1. /sbin/lspci
2. cat /proc/cpuinfo
3. cat /proc/meminfo
4. df -h
5. ethtool eth0 (to find the speed)
Download Source
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from http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
1. cd /usr/src
2. tar xfvj /path/to/linux-2.6.latest.bz2
Upgrading module-init-tools
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