Re: installing kernel.org kernels

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:


1. During the boot, I saw a message go by indicating that TUX was not
supported by this kernel.

It's only present in Fedora kernels, as it's one of the few patches
we haven't managed to get upstream.

Frankly, I hadn't figured out what it as for

If you don't know, you probably don't need it :)
It's a httpd accelerator. Unless you have a need for a really
high performance webserver, you can just rpm -e tux

2. Trying to do this as a user rather than root because you all decry my
running everything as root. To that end I have broken my 'makeit' script
in two, doing all the building as myself and leaving the installation to
a separate script that must be run as root. This seems to work, but is
there a way to run as the common user and still have rights to install
the modules in /lib/modules/$kernelver, and to install the pieces and
links in /boot that are required to achieve a working boot?

sudo ?

Dave

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