Re: installing new kernel

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:30:17PM -0700, G.LeeJohnson wrote:
> >
> > May I suggest that you forget all that? To me the simpler way would be to
> > get the source for the kernel, set it up according to the Kernel-HOWTO at
> > www.linuxdoc.org, build yourself a kernel, run make-kpkg to make yourself
> > a set of kernel-source,kernel-image, and kernel-doc deb files (they'll end
> > up in /usr/src/),
> 
> okay excuse this lameness if it so applies BUT:
> 
> ....I issued make-kpkg in /usr/src/linux ( after doing make
> dep/clean/bzImage/modules/modules_install ) and it seemed to work albiet i
> see no *.deb files in /usr/src.....I don't see any kernel*.deb files
> anywhere...

Well they *should* show up in the parent directory of the one you
compile in, if make-kpkg completed.  Did you use kernel_image as the
target?

> 
> also how do i create a book disk in debian ie: what is equiv. to mkbootdisk
> as that command shows no such file or command.....

mkboot