<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span>Hello,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Building a </span><font size="2">install-able </font><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; ">build for linux Kernel, that is it.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent;
"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span>I have done these:</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; ">$ make help</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span>$ make ARCH=x86 defconfig</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span>$ make ARCH=x86</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size:
10pt; background-color: transparent; ">$ make ARCH=x86 module_install</div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; ">gave error nothing to make</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; ">$ make ARCH=x86 install</div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; ">gave error lilo needs to to be installed.</div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New',
courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span>The kernel is built (for all processor types along with multiprocessor support as well), vmlinux.iso and bzimage.iso is there, the libraries are built, modules need to be configured though with grub/ lilo. Will get Lilo installed or a grub creator (what do I use for this?). </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; ">/boot, /kernel, /library, /.... are there. I do not have /bin, /usr, /etc folders in this. Am I missing something or will that be built during the process.</span><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco,
monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; ">Can someone help me with the steps and syntax's just ahead step by step (like above) further to make a Installer CD and workable boot to be written to a system? The system does not boot with the above, even with a complete copy paste to USB or to a CD. i will take care of complexities myself, just mention any dont's or do's for configuration that is all, I will need help with.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></div><div
style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; ">TnR,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: transparent; ">Ganesh</div></div> </div></body></html>