On 04/17/2015 01:48 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 04/17/2015 02:13 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
If you have the time, would you please tell me the steps you went through to build and install your kernel.
All I did was
zypper up
as root, at the command line. The rebooted.
Why would I want to build the kernel myself? I don't understand this propensity you seem to have, Don, for making things difficult/rococo.
Heck, even if wanted to build it myself I'd use the Build Service.
Building the kernel yourself is 4-5 sequential steps, using the OBS for that is, well, silly. A while ago I was playing around with getting openSUSE to boot on a Minix Neo X7 - if I'd had to 'consult' with the OBS everytime I needed a new kernel built, it would have taken forever. Just my opnion, ymmv.
Ahh,
The good old days of rolling your own:
cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig > /dev/null 2>&1 ## on SuSE make modules_prepare make clean
You forgot some steps. Download source taking way more time than your dialup is likely to stay connected. Expand source into directory space you can barely afford to lose Configure, tossing out everything you have no need for (you think) Go to bed and hope the compile finishes by the morning. Get on the internet and ask why the compile failed in some obscure module with an equally obscure error message. Get several insulting messages and be called a moron in return. Start again. What ever you saved in kernel size you sacrificed in disk space and time wasted. Yeah, I did that for a couple years. Then I found Hubert Mantel's kernels and never looked back. Where is Mantel these days anyway? -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org