Hi,
David Haggett a écrit :
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> I'm a bit worried about mucking up my system (also used for general purpose
> computing), and I was hoping someone could give me some further advice:
Several pinguins can live in your box :)
> If I patch and reconfigure the kernel source, is that likely to break
> future compilation using the default kernel?
I usually use /usr/src to put kernel sources (and some other for module,
well not always :o )
For example on my laptop which needs unichrome and at least 2.6.11 for
i2c and fan control, I have installed several months ago a Kaella
(french lang Knoppix version from linux-azur.org) wich had a 2.4.24 kernel.
I made lot of config to be able to have fan/temp control, I extracted
2.6.11 kernel sources in /usr/src and change sysmlink /usr/src/linux.
So that you could test different sources, just in changing your symlink(s).
> Is it possible to copy the contents of /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9/
> to another location (something like /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-rt)
> and apply the patch and compile there, or is it better just to patch
> the suse source directly, accessing it via the /usr/src/linux symlink?
Don't know in what suse source differ but you can use source from
kernel.org.
> Also I noticed there's a directory called /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-21.9-obj
> Do patches automatically change the kernel identifier so that when I do
> a make modules_install it will create a new directory instead of copying
> them over the modules from the running kernel? Is there a way to make
> sure it does?
You could probably edit Makefile.
> Is it OK to manually copy the vmlinuz and system.map file into /boot
> with a name appropriate to the kernel version?
I do like that.
> Is it good practice to reference kernels directly in the GRUB menu.lst
> by their real names rather than the symlink (when presenting the option
> to boot more then one)?
vmlinuz should point to your config by default.
>
> I'm really sorry for the basic questions - I'm still a relative newbie to
> Linux. I've thought about trying out a dedicated multimedia distro, but
> really comfortable with SuSE now.
I am a newbie so and think I will be forever in front of this enormous
community work :)
> Thanks in advance
Hope it will help !
Jody
Received on Sat Sep 24 16:15:13 2005
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