[Mailinglist] Fedora 7 x86_64

[Sunjith P S]

Ok. No problem.

In future, try to keep the discussions on list so that others may also benefit  
from your experience.

Regards,
Sunjith


On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Jos Collins, ,TLS,Chennai wrote:
> Yes. I missed ncurses.
>
> I have downloaded 64 bit packages from debian and recompiled the new 64
> bit kernel last week.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Jos Collin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunjith P S [mailto:sunjithps at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:22 AM
> To: Jos Collins, ,TLS,Chennai
> Cc: This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software
> Subject: Re: [Mailinglist] Fedora 7 x86_64
>
> Hi Jos,
>
> On Thursday 05 July 2007, you wrote:
> > As I know that kernel source is the same for all architectures, I
> > downloaded v2.6.8 from kernel.org. It is the latest stable version
> > available in kernel.org. The problem is 'make menuconfig' stops at the
> > beginning itself!!! I know that there are some additional arguments
> > which are to be passed to 'make'. So can you just guide me/ just refer
> > some links which describes the kernel compilation method for AMD-64
>
> bit?
>
> No additional args, its just the same. Maybe you're missing some compile
>
> utils. What's the error you are getting?
>
> > Also I found something strange. There is no amd64 directory in arch
> > directory!!! But my FreeBSD installation is having that. Also I found
> > that in my friend's machine, which is having CentOS (2.6 kernel).
>
> The arch is x86_64
>
> Regards,
> Sunjith