On Saturday 08 September 2001 04:55 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: <snip> > > > The package > > installs the bzip2'ed source in /usr/src. Just tar -jxf it, configure > > with 'make menuconfig' or whatever, and then build a custom > > kernel-image package with 'make-kpkg kernel_image'. > > I have not found any reason to prefer make-kpkg over "make bzImage" and > manually installing the kernel image.
I found kernel-package useful for compiling a kernel for a machine that didn't have any development tools and was too slow (486 33) to compile a kernel in a reasonable period of time. Building a custom kernel deb and copying it over was far easier, for me, anyway. <snip> > > Craig
