Re: mixing and matching vanilla kernel & Fedora

[John Pierce]

> [1] download the kernel source tarfile and latest patch
> [2] untar it in a private directory
>      you don't need to make any links or anything

##### added this step call it 2a
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[2a] copy the current running kernel config file from
/boot/config????????? to the directory where you un tarred the kernel
source and name it .config
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> [3] run "make menuconfig" or the config program you like.
> [4] run "make"
> [5] as root - run "make modules_install"
> [6] as root - run "make install"
> [7] check /boot/grub/grub.conf (it should contain an entry for the new
> kernel)
> [8] boot the new kernel
> [9] when it doesn't work, boot the Fedora kernel
> [A] goto [3]