Re: Building aacraid for RH 7.3

Ok, that did it. I've gone as far as creating the driver disk image.

I will report soon whether I succeed in loading the drivers on the 
target machine.

Tony

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>> I'm new to the list, and new to building kernels from source
>> so please forgive any obvious ignorance.
>
> Everyone is new to DKMS, thanks for giving it a try.
>
>> but my attempt to run
>> dkms build -m aacraid -v 1.1.4.2225 -k 2.4.18-3BOOT
>>
>> failed with error
>>
>> kernel source for 2.4.18-3BOOT is not installed.
>> I'm only aware of the basic kernel-source-2.4.18-3 RPM. Am I missing
>> something or did I make a mistake.
>
> Ahh, indeed.  Because DKMS uses the canonical location
> /lib/modules/{kernelversion}/build which is a pointer to the kernel 
> source,
> if you don't have the kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm installed, that
> directory won't exist, thus no pointer to the source (yes, the pointer 
> will
> be to the same /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3).
>
> Simply rpm -ivh kernel-BOOT-2.4.13-3.i386.rpm and it should work.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
> Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
> Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
>

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