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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrading and linux symlink
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:41:07 +0200
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On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:29:27 Mark Knecht wrote:
> So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
> installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
> a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
> other files - System.map and something else - which I don't even have
> on most of my systems anymore. They don't seem to be needed. Are they
> just things used in the old days but now too outdated or replaced by
> other stuff? (Like config.gz in the kernel, etc.)
>
just run
make && make modules_install && make install
and everything gets moved to /boot and renamed. Don't worry about extra files,
they're small and not worthy of concern
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com