Hmmm, what new slackware book. want me a copy of that. would be really cool. thanks. brian. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/29/00 at 2:41 PM Buddy Brannan wrote: >Hi, > >OK, so I'm reading through the new Slackware book that's online as part of >my campaign to study for LPI certification, and in the kernel section on >building a kernel, it says to do (from the /usr/src/linux directory, after >making a backup of the old kernel, system.map, and so on) >cat arch/i386/boot/zImage > /vmlinuz >(or bzImage, as the case my be) > >I never actually noticed the sequence of commands here, since my last step >was always make install, which generally did the correct bit of magic to >get the new kernel working. So...is there any particular reason you copy >the kernel this way, rather than using cp instead? I'd really love to know >if anyone can tell me. ... > >Thanks. > >-- >Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV >Email: davros at ycardz.com >Voice mail: 877-791-5298 >All opinions are all mine! > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
