Re: Request of procedure to complie the kernel...

[Timothy Murphy]

Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> I read from a magazine as
> Unpack sources into /usr/src/
> make xconfig
> make menuconfig
> make
> make modules_install
> make install
> reboot the machine

This seems to me a reasonably accurate description,
except that 2 and 3 are alternatives -
they do the same thing in different ways.
It make be a tiny bit safer to say "make oldconfig; make xconfig"
or "make oldconfig; make menuconfig".

Most of the advice you have been given is too complicated, IMHO.
Compiling the kernel is not very difficult,
though going through the options after make xconfig/menuconfig
is a little tedious.
Save your configuration (there is an option to do this)
if you intend repeating the exercise.

I would get the "vanilla" source from http://www.kernel.org/
rather than using sources distributed with Fedora.