For compiling kernels on Debian systems, I highly recommend using the kernel-package package, which will build Debian packages out of kernel source fairly painlessly. It's also the standard way to build add-on modules such as ALSA, OpenAFS, or lm-sensors that are distributed as separate packages. 'apt-get install kernel-package' (and bin86, if you're on i386) and then...
Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MFK> once unpacked, it's usually best to rename the created "linux" MFK> directory to something like "linux-version" i.e. linux-2.4.6, and then MFK> to symlink to linux: MFK> mv linux linux-2.4.6 MFK> ln -s !!:2 !!:1 (IMHO, renaming the directory is a good idea, but creating the symlink isn't necessarily, particularly if you have several different source trees in the same place.) MFK> assuming your tar.gz file for the kernel is in /usr/src, you'd do the MFK> following to compile a kernel: MFK> MFK> cd /usr/src MFK> tar xfz linux-2.4.6.tar.gz MFK> mv linux linux-2.4.6 MFK> ln -s !!:2 !!:1 MFK> cd !!:2 MFK> make menuconfig All this is fine so far. (Though I'd skip the 'ln -s' step, and be more careful with the history expansion, so the fifth line would be an explicit 'cd linux-2.4.6'.) MFK> make dep modules modules_install bzImage 'make-kpkg --revision=mymachine.1 --rootcmd fakeroot binary' 'fakeroot make-kpkg modules_image' (The latter command goes off and builds everything under /usr/src/modules as kernel modules, setting appropriate variables so they know which kernel version they're being compiled for and where the kernel source tree actually is.) MFK> cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.6 MFK> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6 'dpkg --install ../*.deb' MFK> $EDITOR /etc/lilo.conf # make the changes here MFK> lilo MFK> reboot This is necessary in any case, if you're using LILO. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
