Re: Kernel compiling on Debian
Is this part of "kernel-package" ?? I just looked at it in aptitude and it does appear so.
Reason I want to recompile is that vmlinuz is over 1mb in size, so it apparently has a lot compiled in, instead of modules. My older, customer kernels were usually less than 500k. I see on bootup, or via dmesg, that the kernel is looking for various devices that I don't have (mainly SCSI cards (??). I also can't get CD-Writing to work as it appears I can't get the "sr_mod" module loaded via "modconf". Any ideas there ??
Regards
Hall
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> Take a look at make-kpkg -- You'll have to install its .deb first though.
>
> Configure your kernel as usual, then do a make-kpkg clean instead of
> make dep ; make clean. To do the actual compile, do make-kpkg
> --revision=<some version number -- there are rules for good numbers in the
> docs> kernel_image
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> > What is the "debian way" of compiling a kernel ?? I've read mentions of
> > using something like "kernel-pkg" or similar. Can someone point to a
> > website with details ?? Or, can I simply download the kernel source and
> > do it the way I've always done it with "lesser" distros ;-) ??
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