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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