Re: Compiling kernel

[Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net>]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:18:13PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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> I've been looking at the documentation for compiling the kernel, and something 
> seems missing to me.
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>From Debian Reference:

# apt-get install debhelper modutils kernel-package libncurses5-dev
     # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18   # use latest version
     # apt-get install fakeroot
     # vi /etc/kernel-pkg.conf                # input my name and email
     $ cd /usr/src                            # build directory
     $ tar --bzip2 -xvf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2
     $ cd kernel-source-2.4.18                # if this is your kernel 
source
     $ cp /boot/config-2.4.18-386 .config     # get current config as 
default
     $ make menuconfig                        # customize as one wishes
     $ make-kpkg clean                        # must run (per: man 
make-kpkg)
     $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -486 --initrd \
             --revision=rev.01 kernel_image \
             modules_image # modules_image is for pcmcia-cs* etc.
     $ cd ..
     # dpkg -i kernel-image*.deb pcmcia-cs*.deb # install

 
HTH,

Jim Seymour