I'm going to give this a go...
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you need gcc to compile kernel.
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Already have it for some Perl modules I installed...
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ncurses-devel package is needed while compiling kernel
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I have no idea what this is, or what it is for, but I am installing it.
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I like to build my kernels in /usr/local/src
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Sounds good to me
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down Load kernel 2.6.14.6
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Wow...my first wget, the reason why I re-did my network to get this beast online.
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untar the kernel
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This was also exciting...
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download the grsecurity patch
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This was real easy to type in....with the few numbers and all...
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patch the kernel
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I typed this command in wrong and it took a while to figure out what happened.
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cd to the kernel
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Easy
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clean your kernel source configuration etc
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Also easy
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use your current configuration to configure your new kernel
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Still easy
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go into into the menu
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It was easy getting there...
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go to the grsecsecurity option select medium
now to actually compile the kernel
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Not so easy...I hope I am doing this right.
Making the stuff was a bit boring to watch.
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make sure there are *NO* errors after this! If you do get errors the below is not going to work.
copy the new files into your /boot directory.
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I got a few warnings, but no errors...here I go
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thats it your done save and exit.
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CRAP!...was I supposed to rename LABEL to something else? I get an error, file not found. Is there a way to go back and edit the grub.conf file to change root=LABEL=/ to something else?
