[Courses][Linux comands] customizing a 2.4 kernel

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:03:12AM +1100 or thereabouts, Sue Stones wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:15 am, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > I think the proving to yourself that you can is well worth
> > it. I don't think it's worth wasting an evening to prove it
> > to someone else, though :)
> 
> This one has particular appeal to me.  Whilst I am somewhat cmofortable as a 
> programmer, I alway feel insecure/threatened about sys admin stuff as well as 
> ideas like compiling a kernel.  I think it is mainly because its to do with 

Goodness. Whilst I can mess up my kernel compiles with the best,
programming is a closed book to me.

> With programming normaly the worst that happens is that the program doesn't 
> work.  Its a logical situation that I can usually think my way out of, if I 
> don't know the syntax or the idioms the appropriate algorithms I can usually 
> look them up.

Well it is possible (recommended, maybe even the default) that 
you have to tell the machine about the new kernel and specifically
tell it to boot into it. If you don't tell the box to use the new
kernel, it will use the old working one. 

So the worst that can happen isn't that bad really: one failed boot :) 
Or you boot and discover you have no network; or so on.

> This ramble poses the questions, what resourses are there around to 
> suport for someone learning how to build a kernel?

Us!

Carla started this thread; and there was a thread Val started a -- 
wow, can it be a couple of years ago now? -- some time back which 
is in the archives about how to build a kernel. I think it's still
prominently linked on the Linuxchix web pages.

Telsa