-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 07:27:57PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Before you begin, do this to save your old .config > and make sure you have a clean source tree > > cd /usr/src/linux > cp .config .config.SAVE This will only be the case if you're recompiling a kernel source tree again. When you untar a fresh kernel source for the first time, the /usr/src/linux/.config file won't exist. You can however move another .config file to /usr/src/linux/.config, if you want to start with whatever is already configured in that .config file, instead of starting completely from scratch. Personally, when building a new kernel for a new machine, I grab a .config file for the kernel/distro I'm already using, and change that to suit my needs, instead of starting from scratch. > make mrproper > > If you were installing speakup, at this point you would do > the speakup patching of the kernel source. Actually, as far as I know, and this is what I've always done, you're supposed to untar the kernel, patch with speakup, run make mrproper clean, then copy a .config file into place if any. Also, if you're just building a freshly untared kernel from kernel.org without speakup, or any other patches, you don't need to do make mrproper, I never did that in those cases. > If you want to configure using your old configuration > as a start and just change a few things, you can do > make oldconfig Before doing make oldconfig, make sure you have an existing /usr/src/linux/.config, or /boot/config-2.6.21.5, if compiling a 2.6.21.5 kernel. If you don't have either of these, make oldconfig will just use the defaults for your architecture. For the x86 architecture, this is /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig. > make dep Note that you don't need to run make dep if building a 2.6.x kernel. > make bzImage > make modules If running debian, and if you've got kernelpackage installed, doing make-kpkg kernel_image at this point will run the 2 above make commands for you, and build a package that you can install. When installing that package, it may also install the kernel in the boot loader for you as well. Other distros may have a similar shortcut. - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGdI2/7s9z/XlyUyARApoFAJ99rmzVSGmmYHpUn8+aGbnG+rGjwwCeK6GP ssV+B6eyesc5mBx66NZr+J4= =mk3U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
