Re: Re: Knoppix from scratch

>So IMO there should be a script that knoppifies the
>kernel too. e.g. downloading source, apply knoppix
>patches, build the new kernel. build necessary modules
>like loop cloop and others.
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IMHO doing this via script doesn't make sense.  What happens if an error 
occurs?  I can almost guarantee an error when compiling the kernel.  
What about changes between kernels?  How would a script handle those?  
IMHO it is very easy to patch and compile the kernel.

Here is what I did when I moved to 2.6.7 in my from scratch.
Got, untarred and symlinked in usual place.
cd linux
patch -p1 < ../knoppix-kernel26.patch
Applied other patches that I wanted to include....
cp /boot/config-2.6.5 .config
make oldconfig
Answered yes,no or module to the changes between the kernels.
make menuconfig to further customize(i586 instead of i386, etc)
cd ..
make

I did encounter a few errors with modules not compiling, but once I 
resolved these, make built the kernel debs!  Then following the HOWTO, I 
replaced the kernel and modules in miniroot.  The only tricky part here 
is all the modules end in .o instead of .ko as one would expect for 
2.6.x.  Not a biggie, just copy the modules over the current ones.  Much 
thanks to Klaus, Fabian and all that have contributed to this AWESOME 
project.

Regards,
Cecil