| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435 | <sect1 id="ch08-kernel"><title>Installing a kernel</title><para>A kernel is the heart of a Linux system. We could use the kernel imagefrom our normal system, but we might as well compile a new kernel fromthe most recent kernel sources available.</para><para>Building the kernel involves a few steps: configuring it and compilingit. There are a few ways to configure the kernel. If a user doesn't like theway this book does it, he should read the <filename>README</filename>file and find outwhat the other options are. The following commands are run to build thekernel:</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></sect1>
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