debian question

[Bill Warner]

another great thing about Debian is the kernel-package utility.  This
package replaces the usual make bzImage; make modules; make
modules_install with some scripts that will build a kernel deb package
for you.

here is the basics:

make x|menu|whateverconfig (like usual)
vi Makefile (change extra version to somehting you will remember like
-<your name>)
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg kernel_image
dpkg -i ../kernel-image-<kernel-version>.deb

Bill W

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 15:51, bob smith wrote:
> 
> --- Bob George <mailings01@ttlexceeded.com> wrote:
> > "bob smith" <sekretskwerl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been looking around the debian site at the
> > > different releases (stable, testing, and unstable)
> > but
> > > I'm a little confused about what kernels are
> > included.
> > > It seems that the 2.2r5 or Joel Klecker release
> > > contains the 2.2.19 kernel. Does this mean that
> > you
> > > then should go to a site such as kernel.org and
> > > download 2.4.18?
> > 
> > Assuming you've got apt set up, you can update to a
> > newer pre-built kernel
> > via "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686" (or
> > whatever you prefer). To
> > see what's available, you can do "apt-cache search
> > kernel-image".
> > 
> > If you're after source, you can do "apt-get install
> > kernel-source-<version>"
> > if you like. Of course, you can download the latest
> > from kernel.org and
> > build it from there as well.
> > 
> > I only recently realized that using a .deb puts the
> > "working" .config in
> > /boot (i.e. /boot/config-24.18-686) if you want to
> > use that as a basis for
> > kernel tweaking. I wish I'd known that a couple of
> > months ago when trying to
> > figure out what was required to get VLAN support
> > working!
> > 
> > - Bob
> >  ("unstable")
> 
> Oh ok, thanks Bob. After reading about Gentoo (see
> Gontrans post) I think I want to try that out before Debian.
> 
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