On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:30 -0600, Mark Lane wrote: ...snip... > > You should always build the new kernel image before making the modules. > Sometimes it will work the other way around but not always > > proper order for 2.6.6 To preserve the original source tree, I like to install sources, cd to directory above (e.g. cd /usr/src), then: cp -al linux-<version> linux-<version> linux-<version>cust cd linux-<version>cust > make mrproper or clean* Optional: "cp configs/<your_arch>.config .config" or copy from old kernel source directory. Optional: edit Makefile and customize EXTRAVERSION to your taste > make oldconfig Probably want "make gconfig" (or xconfig/menuconfig) here, else why are you doing it? ;^) > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > make install* > > * should not be need if you are using freshly unzipped kernel source from > kernel.org. RedHat Source packages sometimes need mrproper to be run. > > * note make install is based on a distro specific script you may need to do > this by hand sometimes. To do copy bzImage to proper location and make new > initrd. And add to GRUB or LILO config if you didn't do "make install". Some people like "make rpm" - haven't tried it, but sounds potentially more bullet-proof, and would keep the rpm database consistent with the kernel version. Phil
