L2Beta kernel How-to 1) copy tar file to /usr/l2linux for example: linux-2.4.7-bigp.tar.bz2 2) unzip: bzip2 -d linux-2.4.7-bigp.tar.bz2 untar: tar -xf linux-2.4.7-bigp.tar 3) in /usr/src: ln -sf linux_2_4_7 linux 4) in /usr/src/linux (->/usr/src/linux/linux-2.4.7) build the kernel: make dep make clean make bzImage & 5) cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2-4-7-bigp 6) edit /etc/lilo.conf change: default=linux -> default=linux-2-4-7bigp add: # linux kernel w/ bigphysarea patch, reserving 16MB of data =4k*4k pages image=/boot/bzImage-2-4-7-bigp label=linux-2-4-7bigp append="bigphysarea=4096" read-only root=/dev/hda5 7) run lilo to reset default kernel /sbin/lilo (/sbin/lilo -q # to check configuration) 8) cd /usr/src/linux # make module lib directory make modules make modules_install /lib/modules should now contain the following directory: 2.4.7-bigphys 9) reboot and the new kernel should be running