Installed Slackware 9.0 last night and got a decent install, but still need to get network configured so I can download grub and nvidia geForce4 drivers. In tracking down the problem I saw in dmesg that my kernel doesn't support hi mem, so I thought I'd recompile using DaOne's excellent resource on this forum (thanks DaOne). Only to discover:

I don't have a /usr/src/linux directory!

????

Used bare.i during install. Skipped LILO and the network card probe (locks up my system) during install, but otherwise followed default selections.

How can I recompile the kernel? Any advice?

I'll call myself pre-newbie since I've only been at this a week or two.

THANKS.

install the kernel source. i assume there is a slack package for it, and once installed that's where it will be.

Excellent advice, Chris. Thanks.

So here comes the newbie part: just how do I do that?

THANKS.

Oops. Never mind. STFW Newbie!

No sources on the slackware cd (unless I really don't know what I'm doing!) So I'll have to download. Back to the networking issues....

Thanks anyways

You install a Slackware package with (as root):

installpkg pkgname.tgz

remove:
removepkg pkgname.tgz

upgrade:
upgradepkg pkgname.tgz

See a pattern: man pkgtool , man installpkg, man removepkg


Search the forums. People ask for where the kernel source is 3 times a day.

Package here: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackwar...0-noarch-5.tgz

Looks like we were posting at the same time, contrasutra.

Learned my lesson about searching the web first. Thanks for the assistance, nevertheless.

No problem.

Enjoy Slack, you will never go back.