Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:29:51PM -0500, Marino Fernandez wrote:I cannot help you with the debian way... that I found more complex than the regular way.Download a pristine kernel (get 2.6.0-test2) cd /usr/src Untar kernel in /usr/src mv linux linux~ ln -s linux-2.6.0-test2 linux make menuconfig or make xconfig make make modules_install Put bzimage in /boot, rename it vmlinuz-2.6.0-test2 Update lilo or grub rebootPlease tell me how that is less complex than $ cd <kernel source dir> $ fakeroot make-kpkg --config menu kernel_image $ sudo dpkg -i ../kernel-image-<whatever the version was>.deb $ sudo reboot I just don't get it. noah
Plus, the Debian way is much easier, IMHO, for compiling on one machine, and installing on another. This is useful in cases where you:
1) Don't want to bog down a machine with compiling a kernel (I like to compile during the day when I'm awake enough to be sure I caught everything... people get mad at me if all the RAM disappears on my spamassassin server, or if I steal all the CPU cycles on my MySQL server).
2) Don't want to put gcc et. al. on a machine (for security or space concerns).
3) Have more than one machine with the same hardware, etc. If only one kernel config is required, why recompile 10 times (or compile once, copy bzImage to all the machines, copy the modules ot all the machines, reboot, discover you forgot system.map on one, and forgot to run LILO on three machines).
Very handy to compile on one machine, scp kernal_image.servername.1 servername:/usr/local/src and dpkg -i the image...
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