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Prerequisites
Understand shell tools and commands (see LPI 101)
Experience compiling and installing software from source (see LPI 101)
Goals
Manage Linux kernel modules
Configure the kernel source
Compile and install a kernel
The two different types of Linux kernel are:
- Monolithic
A monolithic kernel is one which has support for all hardware, network, and filesystem compiled into a single image file.
- Modular
A modular kernel is one which has some drivers compiled as object files, which the kernel can load and remove on demand. Loadable modules are kept in
/lib/modules.
