Re: own kernel vs debian kernel (was: ptrace exploit)

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:13:51PM +0200, Luis Gomez wrote:
> On S?bado, 12 de Abril de 2003 14:35, Dale Amon wrote:
> > I usually build on a different machine than the target one as servers
> > or firewalls usually don't need gcc and such, which I remove from them
> > where possible.
> 
> In machines where you don't need modules, I guess you just compile and then 
> copy to the target machine the bzImage and the System.map . In case you _do_ 
> need modules, do you copy bzImage, System.map and all the modules dir to the 
> target machine?
> 
> Just to be sure, 'cos I'm thinking of doing it that way in lots of machines I 
> own.

I'd have to go digging to give you the option, but
there is a keyword you can use on the make modules_install
line to install them into a directory of your choice.
Then you tar that up and move it to the target (or just
rsync it over).

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