Re: installing kernel.org kernels

On Thursday 30 November 2006 07:23, Dave Jones wrote:
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

That's the answer I was looking for on this subject, thanks.

That was quick, maybe 2 seconds and there is another compile running in
the background.

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 ?

For another 30+ lines of script? I'd have to study up on wrapping that
one up correctly.

Side comment here. I know my present .config is probably building quite a
few more modules that I don't need since I started with a make oldconfig,
but can that explain why a kernel build that a month ago on gcc-3.3.4
took 10 to 11 minutes, it now taking nearly 30 minutes to do with this
newer compiler suite FC6 installs?

Thanks Dave

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