On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:12 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 15:10 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Tom Weller at Ambassador Computers wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > If you self-compile, then it's a lot like 2.4:
> > # apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.10 libncurses-dev libqt3-mt-dev
> > # cd /usr/src
> > # tar xvfj kernel-source-2.6.10.tar.bz2
> > # rmdir linux && ln -sf kernel-source-2.6.10 linux
> > # cd linux
> > # make clean
> > # make {x|menu}config
> > # make modules_install
> > # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xx
> > # cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.xx
> > # cp .config /boot/config-2.6.10
> > # vi /etc/lilo.conf ## If you're Old School!
> > # lilo -v
> >
> > Once you get a good kernel, then when next you upgrade, you'll be
> > able to run "make oldconfig". It's glass-TTY, but makes it trivial
> > to retain existing config options.
> >
>
> Holy smokes. What is all this about? No one on Debian should be
> building a kernel like this unless they have a really good reason.
That's how I've always done it, and I *like* doing it that way.
It's worked perfectly well for me since 2.4.1 came out, and I see
no reason to change.
> Install kernel-package and read the documentation or check out this
> site: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
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