On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Antti J. Huhtala <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote: > Hi all, Hi Antti, > I am a newcomer to CentOS but slightly less so to Linux in general > (FC4-F9). In short, I am trying to make an old SB Vibra 16C (ISA) sound > card work in Centos 5. To achieve this, support for ISA bus and ISA PnP > is apparently needed in kernel. Therefore, a custom kernel needs to be > built. -- Yes, I have read all the warnings of lack of support, etc. > > As a first step, I had to build the complete kernel tree according to "I > Need the Kernel Source" CentOS Wiki. I tried to meticulously follow the > directions given there but it took five or six attempts before I had a > complete tree in ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/. Would you please consider the > following questions in order to decide if any changes/additions are > necessary in the article: > > a) In section 2.1 it is said: "[user at host]# yum install rpm-build". To > 'yum install' something you need to be superuser (as confirmed by '#' > prompt before the command). Shouldn't the example read: > "[root at host]# yum install rpm-build"? Yes, this should be root@ instead of user at . > b) The next command on the page is "rpm -i http://mirror.centos.org...". > Two of my futile attempts to install the ...src.rpm were due to the fact > that 1) I did not understand and then 2) forgot to exit from root before > trying to install the source rpm. Shouldn't there be at least a "$" > prompt (and perhaps the directory, too) before the 'rpm -i' command? The [user at host] would make it clearer, yes. > c) One attempt of 'rpmbuild' failed because "redhat-rpm-config is needed > by kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.i686". This may not apply to everyone but it > certainly applied to me who had only installed 5.1 in March and updated > it to 5.2 in July by just updating when told to do so. Perhaps it would > be advisable to add "# yum install redhat-rpm-config" to the article? Maybe this can be added to or near the yum install rpm-build command because both should be run as root. > d) Two attempts of 'rpmbuild' perhaps failed because I inadvertently > used single quotes or apostrophes around 'uname -m' instead of "`"s > (accent grave?). The result in prep-err.log, however, was: "Building > target platforms: uname -m" and "Building for target uname -m". > I had to explicitly insert "i686" in the 'rpmbuild' command like this: > [user at host SPECS]$ rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec 2> ...". > If this is what the user is supposed to do anyway, perhaps it could be > worded a little differently to make it perfectly clear? On the other > hand, if 'accent grave' characters around 'uname -m' really work in > replacing the proper architecture in the command, perhaps the text > should emphasize the fact? I foolishly did not "cut-and-paste" the > 'rpmbuild' command but wrote it myself. They are "back ticks" :-) This is one of those things that might be regarded as Unix/Linux basics (?). It feeds the output of the command inside the ticks to the shell. In your case, `uname -m` produces i686 which then will be used as the parameter for the --target= option. > I realize there is another thread about these Wiki pages currently being > discussed on centos-docs list but I thought it better to start a new > thread. Yes, this is a new subject, so you did it just fine. Thank you for writing this note to share what you have noticed. The Wiki article shall be modified accordingly. Akemi > TIA, Antti