On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 00:44, Caitrin Torres wrote: > Can anyone recommend a tutorial or howto on debian kernel building > that'd be suitable for someone who's never built a kernel before? I > have an external CD burner that is supposed to use the bpck6 module. > A search confirmed that it's a part of the kernel-image and > kernel-headers packages, but I'm not entirely sure what to *do* with > those packages or what else I need. > > Also, is there anything to be gained by switching from 2.4.18 to > 2.4.19 while I'm at it? This is my home computer, not a production > machine, but I still don't want to upgrade if there isn't a good > reason. Install the "kernel-package" package and study its documentation. It is designed to build kernel packages for Debian. Install a kernel-source package to build from. As for a kernel-image package: install it, check /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot. -- Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> LFIX Limited
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