Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 23:24 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:18:05 -0700, "Monique Y. Herman"
> <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote in message 
><[🔎] slrnbti29t.5gl.spam@home.bounceswoosh.org>:
> 
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 00:07 GMT, tripolar penned:
>> > I am familiar with compiling kernel #make menuconfig #make dep &&
>> > make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
>> 
>> I snag the debian version of the kernel and then do the above.
> 
> ..really?  ;-)  'make clean' is neat when weeding out blunders.  ;-)
> 
> ..I always used ' make oldconfig ; make dep && make modules && \ make
> modules_install && make install ', drops everything home.  ;-)

Well, depending what I'm doing, either `make mrproper` or `make
oldconfig`.

To be honest, I only found out about oldconfig a few months ago.

> 
>> > does this process work for debian? I usually download kernel from
>> > kernel.org but I will use apt-get install new kernel if I am
>> > confident that I wont break anything :-) Please direct me to clean
>> > documention on how to compile kernel debian way Thanks
>> > 
>> 
>> I can't help you learn the debian way, but I can tell you that the
>> "old" way works with the debian versions of the kernel.
>> 
> 
> 


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monique