On 04/17/2015 05:07 PM, John Andersen wrote:
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.
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