installing kernel.org kernels

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:18:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

 > >make install does that for you
 > >
 > I haven't done a "make install" in quite a while as it managed to trash me 
 > to the extent I had to boot in rescue mode from a cd and fix it.

The usual way people screw this up is by not doing the 'make modules_install'
*before* the 'make install'.  That's the fast path to a busted initrd.

 > >timestamps and checksums of the source files (to find out if they
 > > changed since the last build) and a cache of compiled objects in
 > > ~/.ccache/
 > 
 > That dir doesn't exist here except in /root, and that listing doesn't 
 > indicate its useful to me. 

it'll get auto-created when you start using it.

 > Is this some utility I need to install to 
 > enable it?  

yum install ccache should dtrt.

		Dave

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