new kernels & rebooting

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/21/2014 01:26 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 21.07.2014, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
>> you say to put it in /usr/src. Can I put it in a spare partition that
>> has more space?? does it need to be in /usr/src??
>
> You can most probably have it where you want it to. If something
> expects it to be in /usr/src, you can create a symlink.
>

If you really need to put it on a spare partition, you can always move 
everything there from /usr/src and then mount that partition at /usr/src 
and go from there.