Re: Building a Custom Kernel

[Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx>]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 22:16, Ben Hill wrote:
> Could anyone give me a quick bullet-point list of the stages of building
> a 2.6.8 powerpc kernel?
>
> I'm used to the traditional method, but I'd like to do it the Debian
> way.

apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8
cd /usr/src
tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
cd kernel-source-2.6.8
make-kpkg --config=menuconfig configure
make-kpkg binary
cd ..
dpkg -i kernel*2.6.8*.deb

I *think* that's right.  Probably forgot something ;)

You might want to read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package, though :)

-- 
Lee.