On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:31:25 Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Renai, > > a quick question. I have Woody, and I want to install the 2.4 kernel. > > I'm familiar with the kernel building procedure, but are there any > > Debian localisations that I should be careful of/use when I'm installing > > the new kernel? > > With the proper modutils ( >= 2.4.1), I was able to build it (with > kernel-package) with no problems. You'll need some extras if you want to > run devfs (devfsd) or reiserfs (reiserfsprogs), but if you don't want to > do anything too exciting, it should just work. >
Then again, you can save yourself from all those kinds of potential trouble with make-kpkg. It builds debian packages from the kernel source. I normally use something like: Brand new kernel: cd /usr/src tar xjf archive/linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 bunzip2 -c archive/patch-2.4.1.bz2 |patch -p0 mv linux kernel-source-2.4.1 ln kernel-source-2.4.1 linux cd linux make menuconfig sudo make-kpkg --revision computername.0 kernel-image cd .. sudo dpkg -i kernel-image_2.4.1_computername.0_i386.deb (fix up the lilo settings as I don't agree with the defaults, then run lilo.) Later reconfiguration: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig sudo make-kpkg clean sudo make-kpkg --revision computername.1 kernel-image cd /boot mmv "*.2.4.1" "#1.2.4.1.0" cd /lib/modules mv 2.4.1 2.4.1.0 sudo dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image_2.4.1_computername.1_i386.deb (fix up the lilo settings as I don't agree with the defaults, then run lilo.) (Any perfections would be appreciated.) -- Definition of a geek: "I think, and I can't do anything about it." Harald Thingelstad
