Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

[Justin Piszcz]

New site: http://www.installkernel.com/
It is very light at the moment.

1] Latest news about the kernel:
   http://www.installkernel.com/kernel.html
   Anything else I should add under 2.4.17?

2] Install Kernel (bash script which I am working on)
    http://www.installkernel.com/ik/index.html
    ik-0.8.9: Adds -b option, you can build and install the kernel from
the current directory with -b.
    Summary of ik:
    Install Kernel (ik) is a bash script that installs the Linux kernel
and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB.
    It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install.
This allows you to restore the newest
    configuration file when you make a new kernel. This script is
intended for two groups of people; people
    new to compiling kernels, and people who are tired of moving files
around and editing their bootloader
    configurations every time they install a new kernel.

Re: Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <3C6267B7.30A3020D@starband.net>
By author:    Justin Piszcz <war@starband.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> New site: http://www.installkernel.com/
> It is very light at the moment.
> 
> 1] Latest news about the kernel:
>    http://www.installkernel.com/kernel.html
>    Anything else I should add under 2.4.17?
> 
> 2] Install Kernel (bash script which I am working on)
>     http://www.installkernel.com/ik/index.html
>     ik-0.8.9: Adds -b option, you can build and install the kernel from
> the current directory with -b.
>     Summary of ik:
>     Install Kernel (ik) is a bash script that installs the Linux kernel
> and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB.
>     It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install.
> This allows you to restore the newest
>     configuration file when you make a new kernel. This script is
> intended for two groups of people; people
>     new to compiling kernels, and people who are tired of moving files
> around and editing their bootloader
>     configurations every time they install a new kernel.
> 

Sounds like you should make this work as /sbin/installkernel.

	-hpa
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Re: Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

[Justin Piszcz]

Perhaps, however I began ik in December 2000.
No /sbin/installkernel existed at the time.
And /sbin/installkernel doesn't support grub on my rh72 box.
Nor does it check dependencies, etc, etc.

"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:

> Followup to:  <3C6267B7.30A3020D@starband.net>
> By author:    Justin Piszcz <war@starband.net>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > New site: http://www.installkernel.com/
> > It is very light at the moment.
> >
> > 1] Latest news about the kernel:
> >    http://www.installkernel.com/kernel.html
> >    Anything else I should add under 2.4.17?
> >
> > 2] Install Kernel (bash script which I am working on)
> >     http://www.installkernel.com/ik/index.html
> >     ik-0.8.9: Adds -b option, you can build and install the kernel from
> > the current directory with -b.
> >     Summary of ik:
> >     Install Kernel (ik) is a bash script that installs the Linux kernel
> > and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB.
> >     It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install.
> > This allows you to restore the newest
> >     configuration file when you make a new kernel. This script is
> > intended for two groups of people; people
> >     new to compiling kernels, and people who are tired of moving files
> > around and editing their bootloader
> >     configurations every time they install a new kernel.
> >
>
> Sounds like you should make this work as /sbin/installkernel.
>
>         -hpa
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Re: Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

[H. Peter Anvin]

Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Perhaps, however I began ik in December 2000.
> No /sbin/installkernel existed at the time.


Bullsh*t.  /sbin/installkernel has existed since 1993 or thereabouts.

	-hpa

Re: Linux Kernel Information & Install Kernel Script

[J.A. Magallon]

On 20020207 Justin Piszcz wrote:
>Perhaps, however I began ik in December 2000.
>No /sbin/installkernel existed at the time.
>And /sbin/installkernel doesn't support grub on my rh72 box.
>Nor does it check dependencies, etc, etc.
>

You should really take a look at /sbin/installkernel from Mandrake.
Bootloader autodetection (lilo-grub), old kernel backup, adds entries in
loader config file... a bunch of features. Do not reinvent
the whell.

Perhaps it is time for RedHat to turn heads towards Mandrake.


>"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
>> Followup to:  <3C6267B7.30A3020D@starband.net>
>> By author:    Justin Piszcz <war@starband.net>
>> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>> >
>> > New site: http://www.installkernel.com/
>> > It is very light at the moment.
>> >
>> > 1] Latest news about the kernel:
>> >    http://www.installkernel.com/kernel.html
>> >    Anything else I should add under 2.4.17?
>> >
>> > 2] Install Kernel (bash script which I am working on)
>> >     http://www.installkernel.com/ik/index.html
>> >     ik-0.8.9: Adds -b option, you can build and install the kernel from
>> > the current directory with -b.
>> >     Summary of ik:
>> >     Install Kernel (ik) is a bash script that installs the Linux kernel
>> > and automatically sets up LILO or GRUB.
>> >     It also saves your kernel configuration each time you do an install.
>> > This allows you to restore the newest
>> >     configuration file when you make a new kernel. This script is
>> > intended for two groups of people; people
>> >     new to compiling kernels, and people who are tired of moving files
>> > around and editing their bootloader
>> >     configurations every time they install a new kernel.
>> >
>>
>> Sounds like you should make this work as /sbin/installkernel.
>>
>>         -hpa
>> --
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