Re: Compiling same kernel

[Aquila <aquila@hypox.org>]

It is a little different, Debian has this package called
"kernel-package" (apt-get install it) which contains a script called
"make-kpkg" to create debian packages from kernel source. 

The usual procedure is this:
- download the kernel source for 2.2.17
- unpack it into /usr/src/linux-2.2.17
- create symlink from /usr/src/linux-2.2.17 to /usr/src/linux
(housekeeping)
- do your sound card patching or whatever you wanted to do here
- cd /usr/src/linux
- make menuconfig (or xconfig or whichever you prefer)
- make-kpkg kernel-image
this would create kernel-image-2.2.17-???.deb in /usr/src

Then just dpkg -i the package.

Hope this helps.

Aq.

On 22 Jun 2001 10:36:52 -0500, Ken Januski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 6 months ago I bought the binaries for debian linux 2.2.17. It works
> fine but I want to compile the kernel to add support for sound which
> doesn't seem to be there. The binaries didn't come with the source so
> I've downloaded that.
> 
> My question now is: what is the safest method to compile the kernel from
> source code? Specifically I wonder if I have to do it differently in
> debian than in linux in general.
> 
> I'm sure this is a very basic question so thanks for your patience.
> 
> ken
> 
> 
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