I have Sl 4.2, whose kernel is 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL, and am trying, so far un- successfully, to recompile it to provide HPFS support for the OS/2 file system. To help me try to figure out the problem I downloaded the kernel source rpm to get at the kernel-2.6.spec file, but in my optimism got the version for 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL instead (thinking I might as well ugdate). Now I'm wondering whether this was a mistake, because the kernel release numbers may need to match exactly for a 'build' operation. Is that the case? I'm only thinking the new 'build' might be necessary because of missing files that the recompile operation calls for, including for 'make mrproper' the file 'Documentation/DocBook/Makefile' and for 'make rpm' \ / the files 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h' or 'make bzImage' / \ 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp' \ and 'arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' Any guidance to help me complete the recompile would be mightily appre- ciated. You can no doubt tell that I'm a linux neophyte. - Dushan Mitrovich