Compiling kernel on another machine?
 

Hi
Having spent 5 hours last evening recompiling the kernel on my Slackware 8.1 box (an old P150) I'm wondering if there's a quicker way to do it? Especially as I did it wrong :-)

I have another machine which is running RedHat and thats on a 1.33GHz machine.

Can I copy the kernel source onto the faster machine, configure and compile it there, and then transfer it back to do the make install etc

Btw, I know virtually nothing about compiling things in general or whats actually happening when do the make stuff.


Thanks

Yes, you can. You can build your kernel on whatever machine you'd like, but make sure you build it to support the machine you will be transferring the image to, not the machine you are building it on. Remember to copy over the following:
The kernel image in arch/i386/boot/
The System.map in the lowest level directory of the kernel source file
/lib/modules/kernelversion

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Thanks!
I think I understand :)

just need to get my head around iptables now...

Cool, you're welcome. ;) And good luck on the iptables deal, I am as green as they come when it comes to networking :D

But there are loads of people here who aren't, so don't be afraid to ask, but make sure you put it in the networking section ;)

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