Great mystery and awe surround the creation of the kernel. Many a novice has started down the path and found maddness at the end. The way is not for the weak of heart or unknowing of command line. For verily the Way of the Kernel only the righteous chosen may walk! Tremble and bow before him who has mastered the hairy, hoary kernel. Weep before his awesome sk1llz. Follow him only if you are truly pure of heart.
Er, anyway... On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 21:16, Glen Wagley wrote: > I have been using linux for nearly 3 years now and I have never compiled > my own kernel. Why? I haven't had the time and I haven't ever found a > tutorial I deemed good enough to "hold my hand" through the process. > Well, I take that back. I did compile my own kernel with gentoo and > that was pretty slick but I haven't compiled a kernel from scratch for > redhat 8. Anyhow, I found a somewhat decent howto > here:http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/redhat/redhat_8_kernel_2.4.19_from_source.html There's really nothing special about building the kernel. In fact, in some ways it's often easier than compiling many applications. This howto is sparse on explanation, but its simplicity shows that compiling a kernel is nothing to fear. Do it a couple of times and the mystery goes away. Just keep the old one around in case. ;-) > However, I don't understand why this dude says to rm -f linux-2.4 > linux. I don't want to remove any of my existing kernels, just compile > a new one and try it out. Any suggestions, comments, and jests are > appreciated :-) No worries, he's just having you get rid of the old kernel _source_. Notice the cute little cd--very important! Unless you're planning on building from the official RH kernel source, there's no reason to keep it and it's not hard to put back. Happy hacking! -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ #define TRUE 1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
