NAME

linux_install - Installs the kernel and associated files.

SYNOPSIS

linux_install [ RELEASE_TAG ] [ SRC_DIR ] [ TARGET_DIR ] [ ARCH ]

DESCRIPTION

linux_install is a simple script to copy .config, include/linux/autoconf.h, System.map, and the kernel image to /boot (or other target directory as specified by the optional $TARGET_DIR argument). These files will be appended with -$RELEASE_TAG (which defaults as '-test').

SRC_DIR can be specified to control where to look for the files to copy. linux_install will exit with an error if this does not exist. By default it looks in the current working directory (".")

linux_install is written to be architecture-independent, and will locate the kernel image by first looking in $SRC_DIR/$arch/boot/*, and then in $SRC_DIR, for files named bzImage, vmlinuz, vmlinux, zImage. It will attempt to guess $arch using uname. If it fails to detect correctly, you can override it by specifying the $ARCH argument.

linux_install does not update the bootloader (see bootloader for that).

SEE ALSO

crucible, WWW::PkgFind, Test::Parser, Linux::Distribution

AUTHOR

Bryce Harrington [bryce at osdl dot org]

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2006 Bryce Harrington and Open Source Development Labs All Rights Reserved.

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

REVISION

Revision: $Revision: 1.10 $