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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 21:37:05 +1000, "Mark Eaton"
<hettar@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:

>I've been trying to compile a new kernel for my linux machine
>and I keep getting errors during the compilition process.
>
>The kernal I have been trying to compile is 2.1.44 but I also get
>errors trying to compile 2.0.30.  Is there some reason for thins and
>if so any suggestion on how to prevent it.

I would install the 2.0.32 kernel rather than the 2.1.x kernels as
they are development kernels and aren't always extremely stable. You
don't say what any of the errors are.

Some common ones are :-
Not a late enough version of gcc
Not the required version of libc
Haven't got the appropriate assembler language compiler installed

Read the README for any further requirements

>Also I wanted to know how I can Install device drivers on linux??

Yes, you compile them and install them as modules, there should be
details of how to do it either in the tar (readme or something
similar) or in the actual code as documentation. The web site you got
them from probaly has details as well

>I found drivers for my network card but am not sure what to do with them.
>It is just a tar file which unpacks to the /usr/src dir. Do i have to
>compile them
>or what ?? (Yes I know my newness to linux is showing. But how else
>do you learn ??).

By asking, reading HOWTOs etc and experimenting I did the same and
that is how I learnt

>My machine is an Authentic AMD K6 200 with 64 meg of ram on
>an Abit TX97-XE motherboard and a Matrox millenium
>with 4 meg of memory on

You mentioned a network card, what is it as I may be able to help with
that.