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CAOS-Assignment 0 - Part 1: We Need To Download, Modify, Compile and Install A Kernel On Ubuntu Server 14.10

The document provides instructions for downloading, modifying, compiling, and installing a custom kernel on an Ubuntu 14.10 server virtual machine. It describes downloading VMware Workstation and the Ubuntu 14.10 ISO, installing Ubuntu, updating package sources, installing build tools and kernel packages, downloading the Linux 3.16 kernel source, configuring and compiling the kernel, installing the custom kernel packages, updating GRUB, and rebooting to verify the new kernel version.

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CAOS-Assignment 0 - Part 1: We Need To Download, Modify, Compile and Install A Kernel On Ubuntu Server 14.10

The document provides instructions for downloading, modifying, compiling, and installing a custom kernel on an Ubuntu 14.10 server virtual machine. It describes downloading VMware Workstation and the Ubuntu 14.10 ISO, installing Ubuntu, updating package sources, installing build tools and kernel packages, downloading the Linux 3.16 kernel source, configuring and compiling the kernel, installing the custom kernel packages, updating GRUB, and rebooting to verify the new kernel version.

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CAOS- Assignment 0 –part 1

We need to download, modify , compile and install a kernel on Ubuntu server


14.10.

 Download VMware Workstation and Ubuntu server 14.10.iso image


and mount the downloaded image file to install Ubuntu server
 After setting up the server, first of all we need to update the source links to enable the
use of " apt-get" because v14.10 contains outdated links which creates errors

 To update the links . you need to become a superuser . After entering superuser mode
enter

cd /etc/apt

chmod -R 777 sources.list

nano sources.list
 In this file replace all instances of "in.archive" and "security" by "old-releases" and then
"ctrl+o" and "enter" to save. What this does is that it enables “apt” command to get links to
install packages essential to this assignment otherwise it produces error.

 Now enter the commands

sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get upgrade

 “update” and “upgrade” downloads essential packages which 14.10 version Ubuntu
server doesn’t already have

 Now we will install some package and modules which are essential to the process of
kernel compilation

 enter the command

sudo apt-get install build-essential kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot flex libssl-dev


 This will take some time depending on the internet speed. It will install most of the
import and libraries and packages necessary

 Now we will download the kernel source v3.16 using the command

apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r)

 “uname -r” gets the old kernel version and this commands download this which in this
case is v3.16
 After installing is done type "ls" to view the download files

 Now type " cd linux-3.16.0" to enter the linux directory


 Now we will enter a command to copy the original kernel config file to the new kernel

cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config

 What this command does is it copies the configuration file of the old kernel and paste it
into the new kernel version file

yes ' ' | make oldconfig

 This command configures the file by asking questions. “yes ‘ ‘ “ selects yes for every
question automatically so we don’t have enter it manually everytime.
 To append the kernel with a customized string enter

make menuconfig

 This command opens the kernel configuration file


 Go to "General Setup"-->"default hostname" and change it to nandesh
 Save and exit

 After exiting out of the kernel menu enter the command " make clean " to clean the
directory and to compile enter

make -j `getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-nandesh

 “make” compiles the kernel “getconf_NPROCESSORS_ONLN” selects how mant


processors to use to compile the file and typing anything after “-“ append it to kernel version
string
 It will take a lot a time depending upon the processor speed of the machine

 After compilation has finished three(or four ) deb files will be installed

cd ..

ls *.deb
 Now we will install deb packages using "dpkg"

sudo dpkg -i linux*3.16.7*.deb

 This command install the deb files automatically so we don’t have to write the whole
name of the files
 After completion we need to update grub

sudo update-grub

 This command updates the grub so it boots up the newly install kernel version

 Now reboot the system

sudo reboot
 Now at the gub menu select ubuntu which will be our modified kernel ubuntu

 Now to check the kernel version and the appended string enter

uname -a
 We can see the kernel version is the updates one from 3.16.0 --> 3.16.7 and it contains
the appended string "nandesh"

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