On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > not really. why not just download the source straight from > > kernel.org, configure, build and install? seems to work fine for me. > > I've never tried it before, and I'm afraid of hosing something big > time. I wouldn't even fathom on where to begin. Besides downloading > it. :-) Besides, isn't Fedora's kernels tailored specifically to > Fedora, so some things might stop working? 1) download and untar source tree into personal (non-root) home directory 2) copy a recent FC config file from /boot into the top level of that source tree with the name ".config" 2a) [optional] "make menuconfig" to tweak config if you want (remaining steps to be done all from top level of kernel source tree) 3) $ yes '' | make oldconfig 4) $ make (become root, then) 5) # make modules_install 6) # make install reboot to new kernel. if things go terribly, horribly wrong, reboot to old, working kernel. no big deal. rday -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list