Re: Yehaw!

[Lee <lee@mvps.org>]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Lee Chapelle (canuck@webdev.net):
> > From: aphro <nate@firetrail.com>
> > 
> > > cd to /usr/src
> > > and run this:
> > > 
> > > wget http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.3/linux-2.3.41.tar.gz
> > 
> > that's cool!
> > 
> > > mv linux linux-OLD
> > 
> > no such directory or file    <SPLAT>
> 
> It's no longer normal to unpack the kernel source in /usr/src,
> and one wouldn't except there to be a linux symlink to be renamed
> if you hadn't already unpacked one there, say, from hamm or previous.
> 
> If you download kernel-package and fakeroot, you can unpack the
> source anywhere and then, at top level in the source,
> 
> > > make menuconfig
> > > (configure the kernel to your liking)
> 
>     fakeroot /usr/sbin/make-kpkg clean
>     fakeroot /usr/sbin/make-kpkg --revision=foo.1 kernel_image
>                                             ^^^^^
>                something more meaningful --------
> 
> You'll be left with a package called /kernel-image-2.3.41_foo.1_i386.deb
> in the directory above you (i.e. in ..) which you can then install
> like any .deb file.

I follow up to that point but my Windows brain does not grok "lnstall like any
.deb file"  How is that? 

TIA 

Lee