#include <hallo.h> Adam Warner wrote on Wed Oct 31, 2001 um 07:28:19AM:
> I'm not an expert on this but I understand that Debian stays as close to > the offical Linus kernel as possible. So if you want to compile your own > kernel you should be fine just using a Linus one from kernel.org (or No. mkcramfs on initrd is broken in Linus's tree, so please don't build initrd-aware kernel-image packages without using the debianised source package. > mirrors). In my experience you will only need to patch it if you have > non-standard hardware requirements (e.g. for one of my computers I > require the Parallel Port SCSI patch). BTW, ppscsi patch is available in the patch-package in Sid. And in kernel-image-2.4.13-586-ext3 image. > make menuconfig (and select the options I want) Yes, which _you_ want. If someone uses the config file from the Debian packages (with initrd), you will see the breakage when you try to boot with it. > make dep > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > make install We have "make-kpkg" for such tasks. Makes your life easier. > This isn't the standard Debian way of installing a kernel. However I > have non-standard requirements like ReiserFS compiled into the kernel > image which means I have to compile my own kernels. Errrr, this is not the reason for not using make-kpkg. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- That's easy: If it ain't the prompt, it's shit.
