Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 21:15, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:05:47 -0400, David R Litwin
>
> <presently42@gmail.com> said:
> > I read entirely through the Creating Custom Kernels with Debian's
> > Kernel-Package System and I don't think I really feel like doing
> > that. It seems ridiculously elaborate.
>
> Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel
> 1% cd <kernel source tree> (make sure you have write permission there)
> 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig (or, for 2.6.x
> kernels, make gconfig) and configure
>
> Phase TWO: Create a portable kernel image .deb file
> 3% make-kpkg clean
> 4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> (Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or
> sudo are examples that come to mind). NOTE: if you have
> instructed your boot loader to expect initrd kernels (which is
> the norm for recent official kernel image packages) you need to
> add --initrd to the line above.
> % $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> Personally, I prefer non initrd images for my personal machines,
> since then adding third party modules to the machine has fewer
> gotchas
> Phase THREE: Install the kernel image on one or more machines
> 5# dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb
>
> With the addition of fakeroot ( a really nice program, I recommend
> it). Steps 1 to 4 can be carried out as a non root user. Step 5 does
> require root privileges.
>
>
> If this is ridiculously complex, umm. are you sure you want to
> be running Sid?
Indeed, let's compare it to the standard linux way:
!. Get kernel source, make configure, make menuconfig
2. make all
3. make_modules
4. make_modules install
5. mv /boot/vmlunuz /boot/vmlunuzXXXX,
cp /usr/src/linux/arch(i386)/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlunuz
6.mv /boot/System.map /boot/System.mapXXXX
cp //usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map
7. edit /boot/grup/menu.lst or /boot/lilo.conf? to reflect the new kernel.
as you can see, kernel-package is MUCH more complex requiring less steps and
far less editing. Please read /usr/share/kernel-package/README (it is
compressed untill you extract it) That is the single best kernel howto I
have ever read.
>
> manoj
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