[ale] /lib/modules/2.1.XXX.Mine ???

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

>   I'm building kernels for friends who don't have the speed/space
> power to do it themselves.   It's working well, except for one problem.
> When I do the make modules_install it overwrites my modules, unless I move
> them.  And then, if I don't move mine back before I reboot, it can't 
> find mine.  Is there a way to move my modules to something like 
> /lib/modules/2.1.XXX.Robert or the like?

Hrrrm, actualy I've been looking into doing something like this, the
biggest problem being how to get modutils to understand it..
(My use tho is to include the compile in there)

> 
>   Also,  right now, I do this when building a kernel:
> 
>   make dep; make clean; make -j zImage; make -j bzImage
> 
>   would it break anything to leave out the zImage and go straight to the
> bzImage?

No, the zImage is in no way required....
Tho I would suggest changing that to
time (make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules)

Zephaniah E, Hull.
> 
> Robert
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