compiling kernel in arch
 

Hi, just installed arch linux and am very happy with it. I read the documentation and it gives an explaination of installing, and compiling the kernel using pacman but I think you need the net to download the kernel source for that and I havent configured my modem yet. Anyway I thought I would ask how other people compile their kerenl under arch for any tips before I go ahead and do it myself. Thanks in advance.

Make sure that you have "mount devfs at boot up" compiled in your kernel, but you knew that if you have read the documentation :D

The linux source code is included on the both the base and full iso images, so you shouldn't require internet access to build a custom kernel. Look in the /arch directory on the CD.

Yes, I compiled mine from source during installation. If you're going to do things this way, after you're finished with the installation and after you've logged in, right after running pacman -Syu to refresh and update your packages, make sure to create the following link so that if you build anything from source later that requires kernel headers, glibc for example, you'll be able to do it successfully:

cd /usr/src
ln -s linux-2.4.21 linux

Regards.

jlowell