building a 2.6 kernel

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Aug 3 11:29:33 UTC 2004


   to the previous post re: building a kernel, the most important 
information to remember is to move the kernel source out from under 
that silly /usr/src/linux directory and (if you have the room) to 
somewhere under your home directory.

   all the kernel config and building can be done as a regular user, 
and only needs root (or sudo) privilege to finally install it.  and as 
a bonus (this week only!), if you remove from /usr stuff that you 
normally want to hack on, you should be able to mount the /usr 
filesystem read-only for normal system operation.  (of course, you'd 
temporarily mount it RW for installing new software, but for the most 
part, normal operation should not need write access to /usr.)  think 
of it as a safety net.

rday





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