> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Cary Hart > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:55 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Kernel Compiling > > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 15:16 -0600, Robby Tanner wrote: > > I've just started to get my feet wet by downloading kernel > sources and > > compiling my first kernel. > > > > I'm using FC3-i386 and downloaded the latest SRPMS. > > > > A few questions: > make oldconfig > make menuconfig > make all > make modules_install > make install I did all that, as well as make clean and make mrproper. I didn't do "make all" but I did do "make" which I think is the same by default. I changed the EXTRAVERSION to something else. I did get a running kernel and most of these questions come from running that. What does make oldconfig do? Where are the config files for previously built kernels? Cheers, Rob
