Re: Compiling same kernel
Thanks Aquila,
That's the information I needed. I've already downloaded kernel-package.
I just wasn't absolutely sure that's what I should use. Now I know that
it is.
Ken
Aquila wrote:
>
> 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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