>
> A kernel, newly made or otherwise, is a file like any other file, and
> you can save it and restore it with cp or dd or cat or tar or cpio.
> Make sure you know where your kernel is. If you don't mess with the
> Makefile, make zImage makes /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, at
> least on a x86 system :-).
>
> If by save to disk you mean floppy, it is best to make a filesystem on
> the floppy, mount it, and copy the kernel image to it as a named file,
> which keeps track of the attributes and size of the source,
> rather than copying to the floppy as a raw device, which doesn't.
cd /usr/src/linux
make zdisk
Thats much easier.
However regarding the senders comments on Re-installing linux under
different situations, a particular kernel has the root device hard cored in,
that means if you make a kernel on a machine that has /dev/hda1 mounted as
"/" (root filesystem) then it will fail to boot a system which has its "/"
mounted on any other device, that is of course unless you change the boot
paramater with 'rdev' man rdev and rdev -h for more information.
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Jim Woyach wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me how to save a newly built kernal to disk
> > I have to reinstall linux under different situations and I don't want
> to
> > rebuild the kernal each time. I tried saving /boot vmlinuz to disk
> then
> > copying it back after the reload but it didn't work. I've still got the
> > original kernal. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jim Woyach
> > Engineering Assistant
> > Monolith Corporation
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Phone 919-878-1900
> > Fax 919-878-8844
> >
>
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