On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:32:02PM +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote: >I have just done my first Debian install, and one of the things I >want to do before I declare it complete is to make sure I can >recreate the kernel from source so that I know I have the source >for what I am running on hand.. > >I am doing this on a 233MHz 'Mobile Pentium MMX', and so during >the install selected vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 (and vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-586tsc) >which seem to work ok, though I am not sure if I made the optimal >choice. > >So far I have done: > apt-get install kernel-tree-2.6.8 > cd /usr/src > tar jxf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > >Which I assume has given be a source tree corresponding to my >running 2.6 kernel. > >The problem at this point is working out how the current kernel >binary was configured. In my previous Linux distributions (SuSE >and gentoo), I could copy /proc/config.gz which was garanteed >to be the configuration of the running kernel, but my new Debian >system doesn't seem to have that. Is there a different mechanism? > >Can I assume that if I don't run menuconfig etc that the default >kernel configuration installed from the source tarfile will be >what was used to produce my running kernel? > >Anything else I should know when building in a Debian system? For building take a look at kernel-package. The config for the installed kernels can be found in /boot/config-*. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Finagle's Sixth Law: Don't believe in miracles -- rely on them.
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