Re: rebuild kernel and modules
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> Lee Bradshaw <lee@sectionIV.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato
>>> to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to
>>> know after the kernel and some modules were built, how would
>>> I go about install the modules.
>>>
>>> I learned that I can re-install the new kernel by simply
>>> dpkg -i. But, for module, what is the command to install
>>> or unstall.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> After you do something like:
>>
>> make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
>>
>> add:
>>
>> make-kpkg modules_image
>>
>> Install both the kernel-image and pcmcia-modules .deb files.
>>
>> See /usr/share/kernel-package/README.modules for more info.
>
> First, it seems that Timothy is not using the kernel-package
> package. You'll want to use this Timothy since it makes life a lot
> easier on our Debian systems, and it is the Debian Way (TM).
Timothy was using "dpkg -i" to install his new kernel. I assumed he was
asking about extra modules since the .deb he installed would have the
standard modules. Maybe he just didn't realize the modules were in the
.deb file.
>
> Now, what Lee said only applies to "extra" modules, like PCMCIA. The
> modules that are part of the kernel source tree are included in the
> kernel image file that is generated by make-kpkg. Read the docs for
> the kernel-package package to learn how to use it. It's pretty
> straightforward. An example session for building a kernel:
>
> % cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.13
> % make menuconfig
> % make-kpkg --revision homePC.1 --bzimage kernel_image
> % cd ..
> % dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.14_homePC.1_i386.deb
>
> and you're done.
>
> Gary
>
>
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