Hello fellow Slackers,
I was wondering how to package a kernel.I have recompiled the
standard kernel from 9.1 to an SMP kernel. Is it possible to package
this up so that I may install it on other servers as needed?
thanks.
-N

On 11 Oct 2003 11:16:10 -0700, JSpazi <NixerX@netscape.net> wrote:
> I was wondering how to package a kernel.I have recompiled the
> standard kernel from 9.1 to an SMP kernel. Is it possible to package
> this up so that I may install it on other servers as needed?

<URL:$MIRROR/slackware-9.1/source/a/kernel-ide/kernel-ide.SlackBuild>.


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JSpazi <NixerX@netscape.net> wrote:
> Hello fellow Slackers,
> I was wondering how to package a kernel.I have recompiled the
> standard kernel from 9.1 to an SMP kernel. Is it possible to package
> this up so that I may install it on other servers as needed?
> thanks.

cp xxx /vmlinux
lilo

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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:18:48 +0000, William Park wrote:

>> Is it possible to package this up so that I may install it on other
>> servers as needed?
>> thanks.

> cp xxx /vmlinux
> lilo

You sure can do this, however you will also need to package the modules
otherwise your kernel is worth very little.
Add /lib/modules'uname -r'/* to the bundle, where uname -r is the
smp-kernel version.

Another thing to remember is that if you copy the smp-kernel to another
machine alongside the modules then you will need to change its RDEV, if of
course the other machine has a different root device than where the kernel
was compiled.

rdev <kernel-image> /dev/hdXx

Xx being hda1 2 3 hdb1 2 3 etc etc..

man rdev
rdev -h

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