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A no MODULE compile ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Sat Oct 26 21:52:21 1996

Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 21:50:31 -0400
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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W. D. McKinney writes:
 > Ok,
 > 
 > I need to set up a RHCL 4.0 box with no modules.
 > If we want use 2.0.21 kernel and just compile all needed
 > services, what is best way to to take a RHCL 4.0 sys
 > to this direction ?
 > 
 > 
 > 1. Blow away cd /usr/src/linux /usr/src/redhat /usr/src/linux-2.0.18 ?
 > 2. Just drop a new kernel source in /usr/src/ ?
 > 3. make config, make dep; make clean; make zImage (Of course, no modules) ?
 > 4. Does this take away module dependent searches ?
 > 
 > Appreciate some input here.
 > 
In short YES, however I wouldn't get rid of the kernel you have
wherever i.e. /boot, but I'd just add it to your lilo.conf and
re-run lilo after you have compiled. This will give you a backup
kernel to boot from.

Hope this helps, if you need more info e-mail me directly.

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