28 Sep
2006
28 Sep
'06
8:31 p.m.
cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:16:57AM +0100, Ian bell wrote:
Is is necesary to compile the kernel on the actual system itself? I would have thought it would be possible to compile the necessary modules on another system and just copy and modprobe them on your new one.
But I'd need a full installation of the (new to me) distribution to do the build, I don't think it would be that easy to build a module on (for example) Slackware and use it on Suse would it?
Should be fine. You only need the kernel source for the new distro. No different realy than building different version kernels on one system. Each distro tends to patch its kernel but that should not affect module building provided you use the right kernel source.
Ian