> i really want to stay with debian and i can see how it's quite nice, but > i'm heading out of town for a while in a week and i need to be > comfortable with my laptop. errors like this make me very > uncomfortable. can anyone help? is there something i have to do with > debian to make it play nicely with hand-rolled kernels, libraries, etc? >
apt-get install kernel-package. Then use make-kpkg to make kernel-image debs of your kernels. The package's docs are pretty clear.