Custom kernel rpm for FC3?

Gabriel Labelle glabelle at optimized.org
Tue Dec 28 18:18:32 UTC 2004


I've now found what I was looking for!

http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-
en/index.html#intro

The only thing I would ask to the author is what if I have a SMP system
and still want to build the UP version of my kernel? 

Anyways, it worked great for me.
Gabriel

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:56 +0100, Gabriel Labelle wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to create a custom kernel rpm (and an "old fashion" kernel-
> source rpm also if possible) for my Fedora Core 3 box. So I went to
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/ and followed the
> instructions.
> 
> But after step 5, I'm not sure of what I should do in order to build my
> kernel and kernel-source rpms.
> 
> Should I try with one of the following? Which one should I use since I
> don't understand the difference between each one of these?
> 
> $ make help |grep rpm
> 
> rpm - Build a kernel as an RPM package
> rpm-pkg - Build the kernel as an RPM package
> binrpm-pkg - Build an rpm package containing the compiled kernel &
> modules
> 
> Many thanks for your time and help.
> Gabriel




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