Kernel Question - Debian

Eric Richardson plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 12 May 2001 14:27:15 -0700


"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 11. May, 2001 schwäzte Eric Richardson so:
> 
> > Fantastic! I'm glad it was that easy. I will be using the Debian sources
> > to build the custom kernel so I guess "stock" kernel was not the best
> > terminology. A standard Debian kernel would be a better way to describe
> > this.
> 
> BTW, also check out kernel-package.
> 
> Description: Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
>  This package provides the capability to create a debian
>  kernel-image package by just running make-kpkg kernel_image in a
>  kernel source directory tree.  It can also build the kernel source
>  package as a debian file, the kernel headers package. In general, this
>  package is very useful if you need to create a custom kernel, if, for
>  example, the default kernel does not support some of your hardware, or
>  you wish a leaner, meaner kernel.
> 
I was able to compile a kernel no problem because of the following doc.
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/kernel-pkg/index-kernel-pkg.html
Really easy but have not tried the result yet.

Thanks,

Eric