So anyway, it was like, 17:28 CET Feb 04 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Ben Measures was all like, "Dude,

> make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install just for
> that extra clean feeling (okay, rogue modules get cleaned from
> /lib/modules/, helps sometimes with modules-update errors).

I thought modules_install was responsible for wiping out /lib/modules
before installing stuff?

'make clean' only does its thing in /usr/src/linux (well, the current
dir, to be precise), afaik.

> So in short, there isn't much advantage to an initrd *unless* you're
> building a kernel for multiple computers. So as Mr Root wrote, you
> don't really need to know how to make an initrd (just yet ).

Personally, I've never used one. I've not booted off of lvm (because
I find it silly to put such a critical thing as / on a device that is
nothing else than software raid), but I've booted off some odd ide
cards, and I've currently got two boxen running on adaptec scsi cards.

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