On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:33:07PM +1100, Conrad Parker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:24:08PM +1000, Doug Stalker wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:43:40PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> > > > > > The kernel, vmlinuz-2.2.17-idepci,
> > >
> > I've seen kernals with names liek this before (mandrake with its
> > 2.2.15mdk etc)
> > but whenever I compile I get a kernel named simply after the version.
> > How can
> > I create a custom kernel version name when compiling (eg: make
> > 2.2.15test so
> > it doesn't overwrite the contents of /modules/2.2.15)
>
> define EXTRAVERSION in the toplevel Makefile of the kernel source
read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README
iirc, you need to hack kerneld a bit (patch provided) before it will
load modules from /usr/lib/modules/VERS-EXTRA/
but that should allow you to have two versions of the same kernel
version (did that make any sense?) installed at the same time.
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