Re: Where can I find my debian kernel?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Akkermans wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Can anybody tell me where I can find my debian kernel? I mean, can 
> someone give me the path where I can find my kernel on my newly 
> installed debian system? And if I can find it, is it possible to look 
> into it using the VI editor?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul Akkermans
As a general rule, the _compiled_ version of your kernel, which is not 
really going to be usably viewed with a text editor, can be found in 
/boot, and will be symlinked in /, like so:

westk[@westkent]:/home/westk:> ls -l /vmlinuz*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 2004-04-20 08:58 /vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-686
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 2004-02-24 12:24 /vmlinuz.old 
-> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-1-686

You can download the sources, and use vi to look/edit those files, but 
to "apply" those edits you'd need to compile the changes into a new 
kernel and install the new kernel. That's a whole 'nother bag of fish.

--
Kent