| 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930 | <sect1 id="ch08-kernel"><title>Installing a kernel</title><para>Building the kernel involves a few steps: configuring it and compilingit. There are a few ways to configure the kernel. If you don't like theway this book does it, read the <filename>README</filename> that comeswith the kernel source tree, and find out what the options are. The following commands are run to build the kernel:</para><blockquote><literallayout>	<userinput>cd /usr/src/linux &&</userinput>	<userinput>make mrproper &&</userinput>	<userinput>make menuconfig &&</userinput>	<userinput>make dep &&</userinput>	<userinput>make bzImage &&</userinput>	<userinput>make modules &&</userinput>	<userinput>make modules_install &&</userinput>	<userinput>cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/lfskernel &&		</userinput>	<userinput>cp System.map /boot</userinput></literallayout></blockquote><para>Note: the arch/i386/boot/bzImage path may vary on different platforms.</para></sect1>
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