Compiling a kernel

[David Hacker]

It is perfectly acceptable to run this all on one line.  There is 
actually one other thing you need for a 2.4 kerenel.  make deps  When 
building a 2.4 kernel I usually do it all in one step such as,
make deps && make vmlinux modules modules_install
Good luck,
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jun 29, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Jason Warm wrote:

> Just a quick question about compiling a kernel.  I got some brief
> instructions, and would just like to make sure I am going about this 
> the
> right way...
> 1.  Place the source in /usr/src/linux-2.4.22g (or whatever kernel I am
> working with)
> 2.  Create a symbolic link to /usr/linux-2.4
> 3.  Go to /usr/src/linux-2.4 and run "make xconfig"
> 4.  Choose what I want to build
>
> Now here is where I have the question, what I have for step 5 is "make
> vmlinux modules modules_install"  I have this all as a single line.  Is
> that correct or should it be "make vmlinux" then "make modules" then 
> "make
> modules_install" all as seperate commands?
>
> -- 
> Jason Warm
> jwarm@miasys.com
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