Wong Kwok-hon wrote: > I read from a magazine as > ------------------------------------------------ > 1. Unpack sources into /usr/src/ > 2. make xconfig > 3. make menuconfig > 4. make > 5. make modules_install > 6. make install > 7. reboot the machine This seems to me a reasonably accurate description, except that 2 and 3 are alternatives - they do the same thing in different ways. It make be a tiny bit safer to say "make oldconfig; make xconfig" or "make oldconfig; make menuconfig". Most of the advice you have been given is too complicated, IMHO. Compiling the kernel is not very difficult, though going through the options after make xconfig/menuconfig is a little tedious. Save your configuration (there is an option to do this) if you intend repeating the exercise. I would get the "vanilla" source from http://www.kernel.org/ rather than using sources distributed with Fedora. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
