On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:01:20AM +0530, Sankar P wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Alshamlan, Mohammad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > How you can reconfigure and also modify your source code without affected > > your system? Please, if you want to suggest a virtual machine is the best > > option, then could you tell me why? Thanks in advance. > > > > Usually while kernel development, you do not overwrite your existing > distro-provided kernel, but install your built kernel as a new option. > This helps you in not losing access to your machine in case the kernel > changes you have made are serious.
If they're serious enough you might still break your file system and lose your data, so it's in any case good to have a backup. ;-) -- Thanks, Jonathan Neuschäfer _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
