Re: kernel building ??

[Juhan Ernits <juhan@cc.ioc.ee>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, mel kravitz wrote:

> Hi Debian alpha,
> Installed 3.0 on an as1200, uname -a
> Linux casey221 2.2.20 #2 Wed Mar 20 19:57:28 EST 2002 alpha unknown
> down loaded linux-2.4.18.tar.gz from ftp.kernel.org
> in /usr/src/linux dir:
> make config
> make dep
> make -> produces vmlinux,
> make modules
> make modules_install
> all complete, how do i 'make vmlinuz' ,  make bzImage -yields no such 
> command error
> in top dir(/usr/src/linux)?
> /usr/src/linux../arch/alpha/boot does not have vmlinuz???
> NetBSD -user


when using debian it is best to use make-kpkg for building
custom kernels. (apt-get install make-kpkg)

Then you can build the kernel by applying the following command in your
kernel source directory (/usr/src/linux) (after having configured the
kernel):

make-kpkg --revision=myrevision1 kernel_image

(you can also issue an appropriate configuration parameter to make-kpkg)
which will go through all necessary steps and provide you deb package
(in /usr/src) which  can be installed by 

dpkg -i packagename.deb

Hope that is of some help.

Regards,

Juhan