If you wish you can change kernel settings, but at this time skip this step.
make kernel_menuconfig
Type
make menuconfig
You should see configuration window like this:
Let's leave everything untouched for now and and exit.
Type
make
for standard building procedure or
make -j 2
if you want to use more than 1 thread and you have more than 1 CPU core on your system. This process takes long time (it took ~1 hour on 4 core machine) or
make V=99
if you need or want to see more details.
You should see build log like this:
Or if you feel really advanced, you can get email notification upon completing build proces. For this you need to install and configure email client. After you are done, type this long command:
date > /tmp/text.txt; make -j 2 >> /tmp/text.txt; date >> /tmp/text.txt; mail -s "done" email_where_to_send_report@server.com < /tmp/text.txt
If you wish to observe current progress on computer, type in another console
