From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4NaF-000624-0n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:42:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1277AE0B66; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:42:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD763E0B66 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so743322eyh.40 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:42:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=nG8O9sCn3aOdzOqUvK1gt4HflC/59TnQeVQNQKg79lE=; b=ND8HxavHvye5+4pfBIWtNFactZO8pLS+YlggGrrG2kLqZ3bUoLIqME3VMh/TV6GVCp ieTUMgJJIgGw7jESL3vwk9oU4gtVDJImrCT6YFispiXSYMAxsHlvhbi8IB+0aA2HaffL jvS7IJy5RXW6xTiOTdobuQ8fCvprC2vyVugVQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=djII9/moYWgaqkF77H51sbAoeY8BeSCG8szie99tMhB/SFZPee7JxFUBoTSqYbbPWb LkdvPs5TCC96a/aZnK7TnMUQQnujz67tg3Whzv+LAq4nlMwTJkRVG8QWdmBsF1lHw+oX qnZyO6vrulfN+PYDDRLVWZGxlITLmjgGHOicM= Received: by 10.216.91.6 with SMTP id g6mr2256685wef.212.1257032529105; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:42:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm12137376eyg.38.2009.10.31.16.42.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:42:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrading and linux symlink Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:41:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen5; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <87hbtfo68r.fsf@newsguy.com> <200911010020.57136.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911010141.07926.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4acd0174-e510-4f6e-a41a-dcbaeaa6244b X-Archives-Hash: 05f135f51a0191aa8112222389c5e9a0 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