compiling a kernel on a different machine
Rowdy
david at fielden.com.au
Tue Dec 23 13:58:38 PST 2003
Greetings,
My attempts to compile a (5.1-RELEASE) kernel on a very old PC take
around 5 hours (of compile time), while a much faster machine sits by
idle. It would be great to be able to compile the kernel on the faster
machine and transfer it to the older machine.
Would I be correct in thinking that the simplest way to do this would be
to execute the compile AND the install on the fast PC, then copy the
/boot/kernel directory from the fast PC to the old PC? I realise I
would need to rename /boot/kernel.old back to /boot/kernel on the fast
PC so it would boot again.
Or is there a better way without disrupting /boot on the fast PC?
tia
Dave
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