Does redhat provide a way of making kernel compiling easier? I mean, if I read a howto, and it says I need a certain option enabled that isn't, is it easy to just go in and turn that on without messing anything else that works up? At 11:58 AM 9/23/00 -0500, you wrote: >I don't know why you might have had the troubles you mentioned Jacob. I >have two rethat systems myself and have never had any trouble with custom >kernels. I don't use make install to place them either. > >After doing a make BzImage, I copy the new kernel to my /boot dir and >update lilo.conf manually. Personally I don't use the "standard" nameing >scheme. Partly because this only works if you have one kernel. I have >played arround and when doing stuff may try fiv or six different kernels >all with slightly different options in them. Instead, I use a date scheme. > >My experiance has been that the kernel can be named anything. It can sit >anyplce on the disk that can be reached using the bios access to the disk. > >-- >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net >------------------ > >Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. > Alfred North Whitehead > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
