My CISCO Journal

Some notes from my study sessions.

Below notes describe the procedure to Configure, compile and install Linux Kernel ( this process is also called building Linux Kernel)

download the new kernel source from the redhat

make mrproper : execute a script make file
.config file, in usr/linux-2.4

take .config file and save it somewhere else

make mrproper : go through the source tree, to make sure all configs are in right order

after build, copy back the .config file into the /usr/linux-2.4/ directory
smart to at least have some base configurations

copy the config file back to the linux kernel directory

then run

make config [Enter] test based

make menuconfig [Enter] graphical

to use menuconfig, we need ncurses-devel- and ncureses4-* packages

make xconfig [Enter] , only required tck and tkl packages

make dep : to check the dependencies for us

make clean: will get the source for compilation

make bzimage : to install the kernel

make modules

make modules_install : install kernel modules

make install : will copy the kernel files to appropriate directories

check Makefile scripting detai