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James Miller wrote:
>
> Let's say someone downloaded and unpacked the kernel 
> source and burned it to CD. Then, they mounted the CD 
> at /cd and, from that directory did make config, make 
> dep, etc. Would you expect that to work?

No.  The compiling process involves quite a bit 
of writing (eg object files).  That normally takes
place within the source directory tree.  Unless you
can redirect that to a writable filesystem, you will
not be able to compile source code on a read-only
filesystem.

Cheers,
Steven

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