| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425 | <sect2><title>Installation of the Linux Kernel</title><para>We won't be compiling a new kernel image yet. We'll do that after wehave finished the installation of the basic system software in thischapter. But because certain software needs the kernel header files, we'regoing to unpack the kernel archive now and set it up so that we cancompile the packages that need the kernel.</para><para>The kernel configuration file is created by running the following command:</para><para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/pwd /bin/pwd &&make mrproper &&make include/linux/version.h &&make symlinks &&mkdir /usr/include/asm &&cp include/asm/* /usr/include/asm &&cp -R include/asm-generic /usr/include &&cp -R include/linux /usr/include &&touch /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h &&rm /bin/pwd</userinput></screen></para></sect2>
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