liquidzoo Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 If you ls -la now, you should see the linux/ folder is a symlink to the kernel-2.6.3-13 folder, which is exactly what you want. Now you can continue with the instructions I gave you above and all should work out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrobabe Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 well I had been getting lots of no available ptys errors after I upgraded from9.1 so part of this rebuild of the kernel is to deal with that. . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 well I had been getting lots of no available ptys errors after I upgraded from9.1 so part of this rebuild of the kernel is to deal with that. . . . In that case, I would continue trying to get this to compile to hopefully get things sorted out... unless your up for a clean install, which would probably be a better option than any upgrading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrobabe Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 (edited) yeah unfortunately I have the piece of software from hell installed and I'm not sure I can get it installed again if I go for a clean linux install *sigh* now I know somewhere in menuconfig I need to change the Maximum # of Unix98 PTYs in use- know where that is? I can't find anything like character devices at the moment in menuconfig. [edit] never mind, found it. Edited June 10, 2004 by astrobabe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrobabe Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 one last quick question- I know, I'm the spawn of satan, but I'm running grub instead of lilo. And after the previous upgrade the start up menu got a bit crazy. I see files in /boot like vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk that are from Mandrake 9.1. Can I safely delete those older files without much worry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 I see files in /boot like vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk that are from Mandrake 9.1. Can I safely delete those older files without much worry? If they're from 9.1, probably. Make sure you delete them from your grub menu as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 yes, if you no longer want or need them you can delete them but keep in mind that if you have vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk the you probably have /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk which is where the kernel modules are. Do rpm -qa | grep kernel and if you get kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk do rpm -e kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk to unistall the kernel. Then delete whatever is left behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrobabe Posted June 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 okay one last question: in /boot I have a bunch of kernel.h-version for the previous kernel versions. Do I need to copy the new one in here? And if where ought I find it (I'm poking around in/usr/src/linux and haven't stumbled across it yet)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.