Handbook: a question and a typo fix
Hoi community, I'm new to crux but I'm already enjoying it. You surely will hear more from me soon. :-) While reading the handbook I came across those this: 3.2. Installing From CD-ROM:
* Go to /usr/src/linux-2.6.35.x, configure and compile a new kernel.
$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.35.x $ make menuconfig $ make all $ make modules_install $ cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz $ cp System.map /boot
What's the reason for not using `make install'? 5.2.5. Enabling the 'contrib' collection
To let prt-get know that you want it to use the contrib tree to, edit
There is an `o' missing: ... contrib tree too, edit ... meillo
* markus schnalke (meillo@marmaro.de) wrote:
Hoi community,
I'm new to crux but I'm already enjoying it. You surely will hear more from me soon. :-)
Welcome!
What's the reason for not using `make install'?
Because it's too general I'd say.
There is an `o' missing: ... contrib tree too, edit ...
I fixed that, thanks. Regards, Thomas -- ..
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Thomas Penteker <tek@serverop.de> wrote:
What's the reason for not using `make install'?
Because it's too general I'd say.
FYI, I use "make install" myself and have done so for many years now as I find it just takes an extra few steps away that I don't have to do. (ie: manually copy, etc). I don't think it really matter tbh. cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method"
[2011-04-14 09:18] James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Thomas Penteker <tek@serverop.de> wrote:
What's the reason for not using `make install'?
Because it's too general I'd say.
FYI, I use "make install" myself and have done so for many years now as I find it just takes an extra few steps away that I don't have to do. (ie: manually copy, etc).
I don't think it really matter tbh.
Thanks for your explanations. IMO `make install' is a convenient and well-known idiom, thus I wondered why it wasn't used. But running the necessary commands directly is fine too. Maybe a comment on this in the handbook would be nice. meillo
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:47:09PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
Hoi community,
Hello Markus,
I'm new to crux but I'm already enjoying it. You surely will hear more from me soon. :-)
welcome :-)
While reading the handbook I came across those this:
3.2. Installing From CD-ROM:
* Go to /usr/src/linux-2.6.35.x, configure and compile a new kernel.
$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.35.x $ make menuconfig $ make all $ make modules_install $ cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz $ cp System.map /boot
What's the reason for not using `make install'?
because it runs lilo after installing the kernel and System.map, which is something not everybody wants. Excerpt from 'make help': install - Install kernel using (your) ~/bin/installkernel or (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or install to $(INSTALL_PATH) and run lilo HTH and best regards Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux
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