Compiling my kernel

[Gregory Nowak]

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Just to add to what Chuck said, you will find that make config is the
hardest part of the whole kernel building process. Unfortunately, you
need to be familiar with your particular machine's hardware, and with
what you want out of the kernel, in order to be able to answer the
questions in make config in the best way.

If you haven't done so already, have a look at the kernel building
howto ... oh wait, they've removed it ... but there seems to be a more
or less finished replacement (according to what tldp.org says), at:

http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/kernel.html

Also, if you've installed the linux-howtos-20030907-noarch-1 package
from the f series on your slackware system, you should have a copy of
the old kernel building howto in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO
Hth.

Greg


On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:29:38PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Debee,
> 
> Have you seen the README in the /usr/src/linux directory?
> 
> Doing "make config" once is a pretty daunting task. But having
> done it once, you may rarely have to do it again. Save a copy of
> /usr/src/linux/.config somewhere so you can copy it back if you
> ever get a new kernel source package. Then instead of doing "make
> config" you can do "make oldconfig", and you will only be asked
> about differences between the old and the new files.  The
> exception seems to be when you move from a 2.4.x to a 2.6.x
> kernel, where there are so many differences you might as well
> slog through it all again.
> 
> Also, to make a few minor config changes, I generally just delete
> the appropriate lines in /usr/src/linux/.config and then do "make
> oldconfig" and I get to answer those items with different answers
> if I want.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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