On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:02 +0100, Jan Brond wrote: > The above mentioned document does a good job. Its nice and easy explained. > Unfortunatly the way of building the kernel is pretty strange/confusing > and the installing of the kernel (using rpm) took quite some time to > finish (around 5min which is way more than copying the files to the > /boot dir and modify grub.conf). Maybe rpm is doing some dependency > checking before installing the files(maybe it could be switch off to > improve install time). If you are tweaking the kernel the turnaround The %install/%post do a lot of hardlinking of files too, I forget exactly where, probably in /lib and whatnot. Dan