trouble installing the 2.6 kernel

[Mantis166]

i posted this on the software part of this forum but for maximum exposure i'm posting this here:
ok i printed out a guide to compile the new kernel
however right away something goes wrong
this is what i did before i had the problem:
unpacked the kernel in the /usr/src/linux directory
cd /usr/src/linux
then this is where i have a problem ( yeah this early)
make menuconfig or xconfig well both don't work
this is the error it gives me
make:*** No rule to make target `config' . stop
Oh this might might help i'm running rh9.0

[Tyr_7BE]

Did you try running "make mrproper" first? It's been a loooooong time since I recompiled a kernel, but I always used to do that first.

Also please try to avoid double-posting in the future. People will see your posts regardless of where they are, and double-posting just floods the board.

[trickster]

I removed the other post.

[pbharris]

hummm - it is working me.
the directory it extracts to is:
linux-2.6.0-test1

[demian]

You must be in the wrong directory or you deleted the Makefile.

[Mantis166]

sorry about the double post....
it extracts but when i use make, it just doesn't work.... I checked rh9's braindead package manager and i've seen it's installed
and i'm in the location that i put the kernel so i don't know what wrong

[demian]

You said you unpacked the kernel in /usr/src/linux. To me that means that the sources should now reside in /usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.0-test1/

Also /usr/src/linux usually links to the directory containing the current kernel sources so if you in fact unpacked the tarball to /usr/src/linux you might have overwritten the sources of your current kernel and are left with a pretty messed up source tree.

Do this:

cd /usr/src
tar zxfv /path/to/linux-2.6.0-test1.tar.gz

or
tar jxfv /path/to/linux-2.6.0-test1.tar.bz2

cd linux-2.6.0-test1
make menuconfig

[pbharris]

hello,
any chance there is a directory called linux-2.6.0-test1 in /usr/src/linux?

[Mantis166]

there is no directory beyond /linux directory....
darn! i was hoping that it would be i stupid error....

[pbharris]

hummss. - i would re-download - extract it to your ~/ directory and give it another shot.