Re: Building a kernel

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

Hi !

Well, you can do it like in other rpm-based distros, but there is a much
more elegant way of doing it. Install the package kernel-package (as
root run "apt-get install kernel-package") and then just do:


1. cd /usr/src/linux
2. make menuconfig
3. make-kpkg kernel-image
4. dpkg -i ../kernel-image-<version-you-compiled>
5. reboot

Works like a charm

Diego Biurrun


William Leese wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> i wish to build a kernel but i've read somewhere that things cant be done
> quite the same way as with other (rpm-based) distros because it would confuse
> apt-get. can someone fill me in on this or point me to some debian specific
> documentation?
> 
> William Leese