installing kernel.org kernels

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

Greetings;

I have managed to install 2.6.19 from kernel.org, and its running right 
now, however I have a few questions.

1. During the boot, I saw a message go by indicating that TUX was not 
supported by this kernel.  Frankly, I hadn't figured out what it as for 
when it starts about 60 copies of itself at boot time that AFAIK, have 
never done anything constructive for *me* that I know of.  Can someone 
comment about this for my edification?  And if it does serve a usefull 
purpose, how can I re-enable it in a make xconfig?

2. Trying to do this as a user rather than root because you all decry my 
running everything as root.  To that end I have broken my 'makeit' script 
in two, doing all the building as myself and leaving the installation to 
a separate script that must be run as root.  This seems to work, but is 
there a way to run as the common user and still have rights to install 
the modules in /lib/modules/$kernelver, and to install the pieces and 
links in /boot that are required to achieve a working boot?

Many thanks for any tutorial urls and answers I get on these 2 subjects.
 
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