New user encountering problems

Brent Harding bharding at ufw2.com
Sat Sep 23 15:18:22 EDT 2000


Does redhat provide a way of making kernel compiling easier? I mean, if I
read a howto, and it says I need a certain option enabled that isn't, is it
easy to just go in and turn that on without messing anything else that
works up?
At 11:58 AM 9/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't know why you might have had the troubles you mentioned Jacob. I
>have two rethat systems myself and have never had any trouble with custom
>kernels. I don't use make install to place them either.
>
>After doing a make BzImage, I copy the new kernel to my /boot dir and
>update lilo.conf manually. Personally I don't use the "standard" nameing
>scheme. Partly because this only works if you have one kernel. I have
>played arround and when doing stuff may try fiv or six different kernels
>all with slightly different options in them. Instead, I use a date scheme.
>
>My experiance has been that the kernel can be named anything. It can sit
>anyplce on the disk that can be reached using the bios access to the disk.
>
>-- 
>Kirk Wood
>Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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