On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:43:07AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 2. Trying to do this as a user rather than root because you all decry > > > my running everything as root. To that end I have broken my 'makeit' > > > script in two, doing all the building as myself and leaving the > > > installation to a separate script that must be run as root. This > > > seems to work, but is there a way to run as the common user and still > > > have rights to install the modules in /lib/modules/$kernelver, and to > > > install the pieces and links in /boot that are required to achieve a > > > working boot? > > > >sudo ? > > For another 30+ lines of script? I'd have to study up on wrapping that > one up correctly. sudo make modules_install sudo make install That's all you need to do. > Side comment here. I know my present .config is probably building quite a > few more modules that I don't need since I started with a make oldconfig, > but can that explain why a kernel build that a month ago on gcc-3.3.4 > took 10 to 11 minutes, it now taking nearly 30 minutes to do with this > newer compiler suite FC6 installs? A big time saver when building your own kernels is to make sure CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is disabled. This speeds up the linking stage considerably. Another big performance win (for recompiles) is to use ccache. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
