Hello
I am most grateful for any help - as what hair I have left I am pulling out!! There are just so many posts on how to do this, it is not too straightforward to follow.
I am running latest Puppy 4.1 official release on full HDD install. I managed to (eventually) work out how to get the devx_410.sfs to work on a full hdd installation - as the script does not do this for you
I downloaded the ready-patched kernel from:
http://puptrix.org/sources/kernel-2.6.25.16/
called:
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linux-2.6.25.16-src-patched_squashfs_unionfs_aufs_lzma_mt.tar.gz
and extracted it to /usr/src/
I read
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34186 that you need to download lzma.458.pet to avoid problems, which I did, although I assume that since I loaded the ready-patched kernel I did not really need to do this?
I then followed instructions at:
http://www.puppylinux.com/development/compilekernel.htm
i.e.
I then got a .config file from
linux-2.6.25.16-src-patched_squashfs_un ... _mt.tar.gzand put it in /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.16/
I did a make menuconfig to check/change options
(I also did make oldconfig as this seems to be mentioned too!)
then
A few warnings were generated during the compile but these appeared to be mostly minor warnings on pointer types. The build takes quite some time, but I was able to poke a bottle of red wine behind my PC to get it up to room temperature...
I then made all the modules and installed these as per above instructions - no errors!
The new kernel is called
bzImage and was found in /use/src/linux-2.6.25.16/arch/i386/boot
It is 22 bytes long. Arrrrrr! Either this is an amazing compression algorithm or...
For my HDD install, I was told to copy the newly compiled kernel to /boot and edit the grub loader to give me the option to boot this - which I have done.
So what have I done wrong?
Nick