Re: Best way to apt update the kernel from 2.6.8 to on server running sarge?

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 02:11 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a number of servers that I have running Sarge. The stable repository 
> does  not have later kernels than 2.6.8.
> 
> what is the best way "debian" to get the later kernels onto my servers? 
> 

i dont know what the *best* way is, but you could:

1) download whatever kernel source you want from kernel.org
2) untar it, and copy the /boot/config-2.6.8-<blah> to the source
directory
3) make oldconfig
4) fakeroot make-kpkg clean
5) fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20050901.0 kernel_image
6) dpkg -i kernel-image<blah>.deb

-matt zagrabelny