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