Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-29 Thread Jim Roland
b Gilbert, PH.D. ~~ - Original Message - From: "Richard Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:15 PM Subject: Re: do i need an

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-29 Thread Richard Adams
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jim Roland wrote: > > One thing i dont understand is why people dont "express" the need to define an > > "EXTRAVERSTION" in the Topdir Makefile, when the option was not there just > > about everyone was screeming for it, now we have that wonderfull option very > > few people

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-29 Thread Jim Roland
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Richard Adams wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Roland wrote: > > Absolutely not. Although I have programming skills, I have no clue about > > C/C++, which is what the kernel is written in. > > C++ in the kernel.? > > > It does not hurt to know C > > or C++, but it's

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-29 Thread Per Jessen
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:51:23 +, Richard Adams wrote: >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Roland wrote: >> Absolutely not. Although I have programming skills, I have no clue about >> C/C++, which is what the kernel is written in. > >C++ in the kernel.? Probably not ... :-) [snip] > >One thing i don

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-28 Thread jlalarcon
Hi! For compile, no, for compile the kernel you only need do "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" from /usr/src/linux directory, and know something about the options you have. You can read the Kernel-Howto and all documents you can about it. For modify the kernel, it's different, for do m

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-28 Thread Richard Adams
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jim Roland wrote: > Absolutely not. Although I have programming skills, I have no clue about > C/C++, which is what the kernel is written in. C++ in the kernel.? > It does not hurt to know C > or C++, but it's not a requirement. As you get familiar with the kernel, > yo

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Roland
: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel? > > hey i was abit curious about my kernel ...so i wanted to know do i need > any kind of programming skills to compile my kernel? > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-28 Thread Richard Adams
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey i was abit curious about my kernel ...so i wanted to know do i need > any kind of programming skills to compile my kernel? No. Just a knowlage of which hardware you have and what protocols you need. Read the kernel-HOWTO and /usr/src/linux/REA

do i need any programming skills to compile my own kernel?

2001-03-28 Thread ziggy
hey i was abit curious about my kernel ...so i wanted to know do i need any kind of programming skills to compile my kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/f