Stupid kernel question

[brian Moore]

Hmmm, what new slackware book.  want me a copy of that.  would be really
cool.  thanks.  brian.


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On 8/29/00 at 2:41 PM Buddy Brannan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>OK, so I'm reading through the new Slackware book that's online as part of
>my campaign to study for LPI certification, and in the kernel section on
>building a kernel, it says to do (from the /usr/src/linux directory, after
>making a backup of the old kernel, system.map, and so on)
>cat arch/i386/boot/zImage > /vmlinuz
>(or bzImage, as the case my be)
>
>I never actually noticed the sequence of commands here, since my last step
>was always make install, which generally did the correct bit of magic to
>get the new kernel working. So...is there any particular reason you copy
>the kernel this way, rather than using cp instead? I'd really love to know
>if anyone can tell me. ...
>
>Thanks.
>
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