LinuxFocus.org: Compiling, Configuring and Installing a fully-working Customized Linux Kernel

Jul 14, 2001, 13:00 (3 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Subhasish Ghosh)

Here's a step-by-step tutorial to building your own kernel. Old hat to veteran Linux users, possibly useful as a printable guide to newer users.

Hi everyone, this article provides you with an extremely detailed and step-by-step process describing how to Compile, Configure and then Install a Customized Red Hat Linux Kernel. As we all know, a Customized Kernel is required for many reasons, and I wouldn't want to go into the gory details of those. I will only show how to Compile, Configure and Install a Custom Kernel. Though the steps mentioned below are primarily targeted for the Red Hat Linux users, but the same process applies to the users of other Linux Distributions also, of course, with a few minor modifications as when required.

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