24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
9:55 a.m.
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