Re: compiling kernel

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:

> If I need to upgrade a kernel on a Debian system, can I do it in the same way
> as it is done with other distributions or is there some obscure Debian way to
> do this?  It seems that when I do it in the customary way, I later run into
> problems which appear to be related to the kernel.

Building the kernel the "standard" way is fine in Debian.  I did it for
almost 2 years before recently switching to the 'make-kpkg' method.
Make-kpkg is really nice, and quite easy.  It turns the newly compiled
kernel into a .deb file, which you can easily install.  It will make sure
things like the system map file get put in the right place, and other
handly little details like that.

noah

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