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Configuring and compiling a Kernel "the old way"/KISS way..

Posted 02-14-2019 at 01:03 PM by zeebra
Updated 02-14-2019 at 01:11 PM by zeebra (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 &&
...
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Compiling a Kernel, general/generic KISS method - am I crazy, am I stupid, am I wrong?

Posted 02-14-2019 at 12:58 PM by zeebra

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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