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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:45:55AM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
make dep<ENTER> "dependancies?? - don't really understand this"
Just makes sure it compiles things in the right order, not trying to compile part B which depends on part A before A has been compiled.
make clean<ENTER> "cleans up the config file? - not sure"
Removes any parts of old compiles lying around.
make modules<ENTER> "not sure got this of a newsgroup" make modules_install<ENTER> "as above could be dangerous?"
If you specified any drivers to be built as modules, you have to do this to compile and install them.
though! My screen scrolls too quickly to pick up what these errors are is there a log file somewhere?
Try the command "dmesg" (or more usefully, "dmesg | less") to read the boot messages at your leisure, then email again with more details on what's going wrong. I suspect one of the RedHat-philic members will have to help you. That said, I get a few "wrong xxxx for this kernel version" messages on boot and it hasn't done me any harm (yet). Mostly I know what's causing them, but can't be bothered to hunt and kill the causes.