Re: Quest to build this custom install CD for dmraid (RAID5) on AMD64

[Mark Bishop <mark@bish.net>]

Quoting Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>:

> On Thursday 30 October 2008, Mark Bishop wrote:
> > I do not have it installed.  The host computer is stable (etch) but
> > the target computer would be testing (lenny).  But I downloaded the
> > linux kernel source Debian package and recompiled it.
>
> Why not install it anyway and then remove it? Unless you have not compiled
> it as a Debian package with the correct naming.

I could do that.  I was afraid to break something on my stable machine.


> > > 2) If you do, try deleting debian/control.
> > >
> > > The version/flavor used in the file kernel-versions must match the
> > > kernel you have installed (for amd64 currently 2.6.26-1-amd64).
> >
> > Is there a way to use a kernel that has been compiled but not
> > installed?
>
> Yes, there is, but I'd prefer not to do the quite long explanation needed
> for that if it can be avoided. And I'd still need to know exactly how you
> compiled your kernel: do you have a kernel-image package that follows the
> Debian naming convention, or did you just run make in the source tree?

"make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image" is the command I used.



> Cheers,
> FJP
>
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