Re: The Debian way (kernel)
On 18 Dec 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Ray Percival" <squadboy@mail.sisna.com> writes:
> > I'm getting ready to go to kernel 2.2.18. I know there is a Debian
> > way to do the kernel but damned if I can think of where I could find
> > it. Could any of you please point me towards it and also anybody run
> > into anything to be aware of with this one. I'm doing it mostly for
> > the USB backports (think I may be getting some devices for xmas :))
> > In any case any advice would be very cool. Thanks.
[snip]
> As to your question, what you're looking for is the kernel-package
> package. So
> apt-get install kernel-package
> cd /usr/share/doc/kernel-package
> zcat README.gz|less
>
Two things the docs don't tell you.
1) copy /boot/config-x.y.zz (2.2.17 if potato) to .config in the base dir of
your kernel source. If you don't you won't start with the default options
used to build the stock kernel.
2) You'll probably need to apt-get install bin86.
cheers,
dar
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