Re: question about patching my kernel
Hi erveryone,
I have read al suggestions and advice on how to install my kernel (thanks a
lot). But the thing is, that I have a school assignment in evaluating a
linux kernel. I must admit that I am new to linux and so I thought that when
I installed the newest kernel I was up to date enough for my assignment. But
is it also possible to use the kernel that I have now or are there a lot of
changes? And how can I look into the source code of this kernel I have now?
Or is this not possible?
Again, thanks in advance
Paul Akkermans
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Sanders" <debian@sandersweb.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: question about patching my kernel
> On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote:
> > uname -a
> > Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown
> >
> > cat /etc/debian_version
> > 3.0
> The basic procedure. Ask if you have any questions.
> 1. Download:
>
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2
> 2. Untar the archive
> tar xjvf linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2
> 3. Change directories into the archive
> cd linux-2.6.7
> 4. Configure the kernel
> make menuconfig
> Note: you will be presented with lots of options. Select the ones that
match
> your computers hardware configuration.
> 5. Build the kernel
> make
> 6. Become superuser and copy the relevent files to /boot
> cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.7
> cp .config /boot/config-2.6.7
> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
> 7. Copy any modules you built to /lib/modules
> make modules_install
> 8. Point your bootloader to the new kernel image
> For lilo you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a stanza like:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7
> label=2.6.7
> alias=linux
> 9. Run lilo to update the boot record
> lilo
> 10. Reboot and have fun
> --
> David Sanders
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