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 1N4NiX-0006tj-Vk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:50:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4364CE0AA8; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:50:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f200.google.com (mail-px0-f200.google.com [209.85.216.200]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123B5E0AA8 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:50:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi38 with SMTP id 38so2530832pxi.10 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:50:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Y/1QjeCfVgL0votgTJMNgXhT/NaZWAsga4BQmjU3YGU=; b=jgfn6UMHtgfm/aTKPZgLOdFapt77/Vma6jKSM0E30+VxF0thFb7bm3ZCT7tWnvGXTL 5S8JUBT++Zv2XGR+5oriOZvcJHE9G+kUx1MeKOy39y4u9rl1qZYqeqy5VxuL+ZaDCJo2 L+MqFR4UbMNjYE3cCtENcqI7ZQ659xpeqJizU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=WDzJ7dnQtjqyKcA2RsUHpfUIIdlBAUcIgIIgSz4rRIGBZviIQwO0uRY5SJNrvOfyif wVvN2Ra2wM4eBN7Lenh3eHWJq+CY5aOJ5miGrWJmgvLCNqqbymOe7zmk8kh6uoXVC+f1 NVbqAQr93+3aKVuo50oX8h+ix5Qa1ccnaqhY0= 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 Received: by 10.142.8.20 with SMTP id 20mr292865wfh.77.1257033043648; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:50:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200911010141.07926.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <87hbtfo68r.fsf@newsguy.com> <200911010020.57136.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0910311629j5e289aa6ua87837515d859d19@mail.gmail.com> <200911010141.07926.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:50:43 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0910311650u72bca0d0gd2395fa227a4c736@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrading and linux symlink From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 430aeaf8-5bb5-4dc5-81b9-7cdcfbdfcca6 X-Archives-Hash: 5261f36c9adc1a7d8e36237907daa05d On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > I don't run make install as it requires (or used to anyway) /boot to be mounted which mine never is unless I'm copying the kernel over. That's why I do the copy by hand. I could put it all in a script like Neil and others seem to do but I'll forget the script is there and not use it. I've done that before! Thanks, Mark