Hi Gunawan, Please read the "The Offical Red Hat Linux Reference Guide". This document is available in www.redhat.com/support/manuals. It gives an excellent description about all the kernel build steps that you want to know about.
-----Original Message----- From: Otto Haliburton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The Steps to upgrade kernel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunawan > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 8:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: The Steps to upgrade kernel > > Hi, > Thank you for all of your reply regarding the upgrade kernel. I still > need > some help. > > 1. Could you explain to me what is the purpose of these steps each? > 1. make clean; make mrproper deletes old objects and prepares the build > 2. make xconfig or make menuconfig (I prefer the latter) builds the X configuration menu or the text menu (you will prefer the xconfig > 3. make dep resolves the dependencies > 4. nohup make bzImage builds the kernel > 5. make modules makes the modules for the drivers etc... > 6. make modules_install installs the modules in the proper locations > 7. make install installs the kernel you build in step 4. > > 2. I have download 'linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2' to upgrade the kernel. > What should I do now? I am new in red hat/linux and almost know > nothing. > > TIA, > Gunawan > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
