On 14-Apr-99 Graham Ashton wrote: > On Wednesday 14 April, Pollywog wrote: > >> If I need to upgrade a kernel on a Debian system, can I do it in the >> same way as it is done with other distributions or is there some >> obscure Debian way to do this? > > you can do it the standard way (and I did it this way for months), or > you can follow the advice of many on this list and try the make-kpkg > utility. > > I now use make-kpkg every time. I don't really understand that much of > what make-kpkg is capable of, but I use it to make .deb kernel packages > (which I can then install on several boxes without needing to faff > around copying all sorts of files around). > > I do something like this; > > % cd /usr/src/linux > % make-kpkg clean > % make xconfig > % make-kpkg --revision mykernel.1 kernel_image > > It then makes a package in /usr/src. Job's a good'un... > Thanks for the lesson. Now it makes sense. It was suggested to me that I use make-kpkg but I did not see how I could make a kernel image without doing 'make zImage' or similar step.
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