Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

["Doc - KD4E" <e.net@verizon.net>]

> > If I run "apt-get install kernel-package" is it going to go out and find
> > another copy of linux-2.4.12, download and install it as
linux-2.4.12.tar.gz
> > in /usr/src?  In that case there is no point since I already have a
slightly
> > older copy of the same file there that isn't getting the job done.
>
> kernel-package does not contain a kernel, nor kernel source. It merely
> contains the tools used to turn a linux source tree (which is what you
> get if you 'tar -xzf linux-2.4.12.tar.gz') into a debian kernel package
> (kernel-image-2.4.12_something.i386.deb). Once you have that package,
> your can 'dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.12_something.i386.deb', and debian
> will put the kernel in /boot, and make a symlink to it as /vmlinuz.
> Then, all you have to do is configure grub or lilo to use /vmlinuz at
> the kernel image, and you'll be set.
> --  Jeremy Nickurak -= gehn@email.com =-

I found nothing new when executing the following after running
'tar -xzf linux-2.4.12.tar.gz' :

cd /
find -name kernel-image*

All it found was a bunch of old 2.2.18 stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/info and
other old 2.2.18 stuff in /usr/share/doc and /usr/doc

What else if necessary to create the necessary 2.4.12 *.deb file I need
to proceed?

Thanks!  Doc