RE: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> make-kpkg

[John Reinke <jmreinke@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>]

I've successfully accomplished what I needed, but I ended up doing
everything as root. I use xconfig, and that wouldn't work unless I logged
into X as root. So:

a) How "bad" is it doing everything as root?

b) How/where is this done that files can be created and xconfig run
without being root? I've used the source where it already is - /usr/src

John

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, David Z Maze wrote:

> Since, surprisingly, nobody's pointed it out yet, you might want to
> look into the Debian kernel-package package.  This builds Debian
> packages out of kernels, making it easier to build, install, and
> manage them.  If you want to build a kernel, cd to the top of the
> kernel source tree, then
> 
>   make menuconfig
>   fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=whatever buildpackage
>   fakeroot make-kpkg modules
>   cd ..
>   dpkg -i *.deb
> 
> The first line runs the standard kernel configuration utility.  The
> second actually builds packages of the kernel source, header files,
> documentation, and the kernel to be installed.  The third builds
> whatever module source trees you have installed to build extra Debian
> packages out of external kernel modules.  The last goes off and
> installs the packages (and needs to be done as root).