make-kpkg --append-to-version

[Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hello List

I am trying to build a kernel for athlon on my pentium machine. It must
be 2.4.3 (as I am using at the moment) because I have xfs running on /,
/home, and /var. I want to install both kernels for being able to switch
all my hardware back to the pentium machine if something doesn't work. I
tried to compile the athlon kernel with "--append-to-version athlon" and
I get the eroor message

"dpkg-gencontrol: error: package kernel-image-2.4.3-xfsathlon not in
control info
make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 29"

Running without --append-to-version gives me a kernel-image.deb which is
named exactly as the installed kernel. This is not good, because
installing it may overwrite the existing kernel and stealing me the
ability to fix anything in case of misconfiguration.
Any idea how to produce a kernel with a different name?

thanks

joerg