[ale] New kernel for non-dev machine

[Benjamin Dixon]

Thanks guys,

Got a number of different variations to try. Appreciate the help!

Ben

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Geoffrey wrote:

> I do the following on both my firewalls and my webserver:
> 
> Backup my modules for my primary (fastest) machine.
> Do a complete build on that machine for the target machine, including
> modules_install.
> 
> tar the modules directory and the new kernel up and move it to the
> target machine.  Make sure you do the proper 'lilo' rebuild.
> 
> Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a machine that does not have any development packages installed on
> > it (its strictly a firewall, and otherwise minimalistic setup) but I'd
> > like to upgrade the kernel on the machine. I know how to compile the
> > kernel on a separate machine, tar it up, move it over and run the make
> > modules_install and all that to get stuff setup but on this machine I
> > don't even have make. Of course, to make Make, I need make so I'm in sort
> > of a chicken and egg situation. I thought I might just do the "make
> > install" that I need to install make (this is getting confusing about
> > now!) by hand but a glance over the Makefile for  make and
> > I immediately get the sense that it would take WAY long and be WAY more
> > complicated than I'm willing to contend with. So, how can I install
> > something like make on this firewall machine so that I may later install
> > the new kernel and do a "make modules_install" on it? Or should I skip
> > trying to get make on the machine altogether and just worry about doing
> > the "make modules_install" by hand (also seems yucky)? Any advice
> > appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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