On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, dan wrote:

> If you are a newbie at recompiling the Kernel, I suggest you use make
> xconfig while in KDE/Gnome. You also need to be in /usr/src/linux and
> then type make xconfig. There are little help buttons to tell you what
> those certain items are used for. Then when you are finished, it asks
> you to type in make dep, type this in:
> 
> make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install

Don't forget that the current recommendation is to compile the kernel as a
regular user. I've created a 'src' in my home directory where I put all the
kernel sources. You have to change to root to do the 'make modules_install'
and to copy the bzImage to /boot.

-Tim 

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