Re: compiling kernel
On 14-Apr-99 Graham Ashton wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 April, 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?
>
> you can do it the standard way (and I did it this way for months), or
> you can follow the advice of many on this list and try the make-kpkg
> utility.
>
> I now use make-kpkg every time. I don't really understand that much of
> what make-kpkg is capable of, but I use it to make .deb kernel packages
> (which I can then install on several boxes without needing to faff
> around copying all sorts of files around).
>
> I do something like this;
>
> % cd /usr/src/linux
> % make-kpkg clean
> % make xconfig
> % make-kpkg --revision mykernel.1 kernel_image
>
> It then makes a package in /usr/src. Job's a good'un...
>
Thanks for the lesson. Now it makes sense. It was suggested to me that I use
make-kpkg but I did not see how I could make a kernel image without doing
'make zImage' or similar step.
--
Andrew
> --
> Graham
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