Re: rebuild kernel and modules

["Timothy C. Phan" <tphan@iqrinc.com>]

Hi All,

  Thank you for the replies.

  I'll use the kernel-package since it will make my life easier :)
  Could someone send me the kernel-package/README.modules since
  I do not have my potato-box with me :)

  Thanks!


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).
> 
> 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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