Re: kernel-howto?

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Winfried Ritsch <ritsch@iem.mhsg.ac.at> writes:

> Goswin Brederlow writes:
>  > "George A. Dowding" <dowdingg@saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu> writes:
>  > 
>  > > Hello all,
>  > > 
>  > > Debian slink is up and running quite nicely.  What do I have to do to
>  > > compile a kernel under alpha?  Is there a HOWTO?
>  > 
>  > Unpack the source,
>  > cd linux
>  > make menuconfig or make xconfig
>  > make dep && make clean && make boot && make modules && make modules_install
>  > 
>  > After that you have a kernel under arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz. Copy
>  > that to /vmlinux-version.gz or something else and change your boot
>  > setup to use that kernel. Be carefull not to delete the old kernel,
>  > since the new one might not work.
> 
> what speaks against the make-kpkg I use mostly
> 
> cd /usr/src, untar the source, link linux to kernel-source-xxx, 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make-kpkg --revision=custom.X clean; 
> make menuconfig;
> make-kpkg --revision=custom.X kernel_image
> dpkg -i ../kernel-image-xxx.custom.X.deb
> 
> which is the debian way ???
> 
> mfg winfried

Hmm, never used it. What exactly does it do differently from make
boot except making a deb file?

Does it preserver the old kernel image and system.map?
What about modules?

PS: Did you get 2.2.9 or 2.3.3 running?