Re: Writing a kernel building walkthrough - proofreaders wanted
>>"Jamin" == Jamin W Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes:
Jamin> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:47:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> 1. Run "dselect".
>> 2. "cd /usr/local/src"
Jamin> Looking at the path of 3, perhaps this should be "cd /usr/src" instead?
I would much rather change it all to cosistently use
/usr/local/src/ or even /home/you/kernel/ or something.
>> 5. "ln -s kernel-source-2.4.18 linux". This will create a symbolic
>> link ("alias" in Mac-speak; "shortcut" in Windows-speak, but more
>> powerful than either) to the directory "kernel-source-2.4.18"; the
>> symlink is named "linux". This step is not absolutely necessary, but
>> it's the usual way of doing things. "ls -l" will show you that "linux"
>> is a "pointer" to "/etc/src/kernel-source-2.4.18".
I would deprecate this, really, especially if the kernel was
really unpacked in /home/me/kernel.
manoj
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