Stupid kernel question

[Brent Harding]

I've never run make install before, knew it existed but was afraid of what
else it does.
At 03:20 PM 8/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Very odd indeed. Was wondering, since they later say to copy
>arch/i386/boot/system.map to /boot/system.map (using the cp and not cat,
>exactly the way one would suppose the operation would be done)=). Well,
>you'd *think* that the people who wrote the Slackware book, who also work
>extensively (???) on the Slackware site and distro, would know there's such
>a thing as cp. But in any case, that brings up another question, somewhat
>related...is there any reason to not use make install and do that bit
>manually? make install has always worked for me, but maybe I'm missing
>something important?
>
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