Changes

Now that we have the kernel sources installed we are ready to being begin the process of customizing the kernel to support the an NFS based root filesystem. The first step is to copy the configuration file from the running operating system to the appropriate directory of the kernel build tree:

We are now ready to begin the customization process. For the purposes of this tutorial we will be using the ''make menuconfig'' mechanism which requires that the ''ncurses-devel'' packagebe installed. If this is not installed, install it now as follows:

Be Once again, be sure to exit from the su session before proceeding beyond this point.