FC5 kernel & header files

[louspag]

I'm having trouble getting the header files for the FC5 kernel I attempted to follow the release notes and anyother information I found on this forum. So please bare with me, I've been using linux since fedora 3 so this is new to me.

Here is what I have done and what my problem seems to be.

I did a fresh install of only the base and all development components of FC5

I installed the yum-utils

I downloaded and installed the following files
Kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.src.rpm
Kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.i686.rpm

uname -r reveals the following 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp i686

i ran the following rpmbuild -bp --target=noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec

it created this --> 'linux-2.6.15.noarch'

i renamed it to linux-2.6.15 since the mv linux-2.6.15 statement below won't work this way

these were my next commands in order
cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.15 /usr/src/
mv linux-2.6.15 /usr/src/
cd /usr/src
ln -s ./linux-2.6.15 linux
cd /usr/src/linux
cp configs/kernel-2.6.15-i686-smp.config .config
make oldconfig
MAKE

The MAKE worked fine. Now I installed vmware server beta. during the config for the kernel headers the path is /usr/src/linux/include. When I select it by entering i get this message

The directory of kernel headers (version 2.6.15-prep) does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp).

What am I doing wrong here?

thanks in advance.

lou

[Shobhit Jindal]

Same problem of kernel headers here too.... after trying d abv in haste installed a fresh copy of kernel 2.6.16 from kernel.org

while installing vmware server i get dis msg
What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same
address space size as your running kernel.

[Shobhit Jindal]

my probs partially solved ......... courtesy http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=100909

[louspag]

I saw that before i started this post but it's a little different than my problem. I'm attempting to install vmware server beta not vmware workstation. Why can't building the header files be a simple solution? In FC3 they got installed with the basic install, in FC4 all you had to do was load the devel tools during the install and a compat-lib afterwads. In FC5 the process has yet changed again. I may have to sit on this until some updates become available as well as new kernels before trying it again.

[Shobhit Jindal]

ya me too installing Vmware Server beta where the vmware-config wos working fine in FC4 and broke down in FC5 .......... applied the patch and everything's fine now.

hope dat it works for u too...

[Shobhit Jindal]

VMware Server Console e.x.p build-22088 working fine after applying patch vmware-any-any-update99.tar.gz