Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 02:28, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: >> Jesse Guardiani ha scritto: >> >> >Hello, >> > >> >Is there a script that makes it easy to package and >> >transfer a binary kernel? Currently, I'm having to >> >separately tar, gzip, and sftp the following dirs/files: >> > >> >/lib/modules/2.6.10-gentoo-r6 >> >/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 >> >/boot/System.map-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 >> >/boot/initrd-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 >> >/boot/kernel-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 >> > >> >Is there an easier way to do this? >> > >> Transfer only /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and redo a make install && >> make modules_install, >> it should work if not modified after the last install. >> Alternatvely you can leave /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 out, if you >> don't compile it you don't need to copy it. > > I think there's a very obvious "flaw" in this. The reason being that the > sources are actually very big. More towards 200-300MB depending on the > build options. > > I would prefer instead to just tar and tar up the few directories and do > it like that. > > That's actually how I'm transferring the sources to another box.
Yeah, but only about 98M or 60M compressed. That's acceptable. However, I use genkernel. Do you think I can still do a make install && make modules_install? If so, then that's a great solution! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net -- [email protected] mailing list
