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Posted 02-14-2019 at 01:03 PM byzeebra Updated 02-14-2019 at 01:11 PM byzeebra(style)
Ok, so the previous entry became long and complex. So here is a KISS version of the post:
How to configure and compile a Kernel the easy, generic way. Core procedure.
1. Download Kernel --> /usr/src
2.
Code:
1# cd /usr/src
2# tar -xvf linux(x).tar.xz
3# cd linux(x)
4# make clean && make mrproper
(#(cp ../config ./.config)
6# make menuconfig
(save)
7# make -j3
8# make modules &&
Alright. So, I have seen so many different ways of "installing" a "new" Kernel. There are probably 100 different ways to do this, and they all seem so complicated or so distro specific, and I dislike it, to be honest.
I like it the "old way" or the raw method as I like to call it, or it could actually be the "wrong way" or the "stupid way", I am not sure, but yet I am pretty sure that it is more likely "the old way" or the...
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