Author: alexander Date: 2006-09-08 10:00:20 -0600 (Fri, 08 Sep 2006) New Revision: 1722
Modified: branches/6.2/doc/README Log: The previous commit forgot the documentation Modified: branches/6.2/doc/README =================================================================== --- branches/6.2/doc/README 2006-09-08 15:58:36 UTC (rev 1721) +++ branches/6.2/doc/README 2006-09-08 16:00:20 UTC (rev 1722) @@ -67,6 +67,25 @@ (A tool for extracting commands from the Linux From Scratch book and creating Makefiles that can download, check and build each LFS package for you.) +IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE KERNEL +=========================== +The LFS book recommends using "the latest available 2.6.16.x kernel version". +At the time of the release of this CD, such version is 2.6.16.28. However, +because of the way jhalfs works, the source for the 2.6.16.27 kernel +must be present on the CD in order for jhalfs to be able to build a kernel. +However, using jhalfs for building the kernel is acceptable only if +you don't care about security. + +In order to get the 2.6.16.28 kernel from this CD, unpack the +linux-2.6.16.27.tar.bz2 source tarball, and apply the upstream update patch: + +bzcat ../patch-2.6.16.27-28.bz2 | patch -Np1 + +The patch-2.6.16.27-28.bz2 file is in the /lfs-sources directory. + +Further kernel updates may be available from +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/ + CONFIGURING NET CONNECTION =========================== The LiveCD attempts to detect the network cards present in the system. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
