[ILUG] building a kernel for redhat 6.1

[kevin lyda]

ok, let's say i download linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2 (i don't have any others)
and i want to drop it into a redhat 6.1 box.

# cd /usr/src
# rm linux
# bzcat /home/kevin/kits/linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2|tar xf -
# cd linux
# make menuconfig
(here i set it for a 686, yank out useless cruft - do i set smp stuff
here or is it still in the Makefile?)
# for s in dep clean modules bzImage modules_install; do
#   make -j3 $s
# done > make.out 2> make.err
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14
# rm vmlinuz
# ln -s vmlinuz-2.2.14 vmlinuz

and all will be well?  any idears on what patches redhat applies?  in
particular stuff compaq hardware likes?  (yes paul, we're a compaq shop
with gobs of linux running proliants about the place.  6 now, 8
tomorrow, hence my questions.)

kevin
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