Re: Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-14 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 14 Jun 2003 09:51:19 -0500 Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --revision just gives your kernel a more descriptive name. > > --append-to-version appends the append-to-version text to the kernel > name AND to the modules directory name when dpkg installs the kernel. This is not corre

Re: Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-14 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 10:32, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > "--revision" affects the name of the Debian package itself but not the > kernel name, so "uname -r" won't show the revision, and it will use the > same modules as other revisions of the same version. > > "--a

Re: Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I recommend: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ There is a kernel doc among others. Cheers, Bret On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:42, N.Pauli wrote: > Someone asked for advice on guides to building a custom kernel. Unfortunately I > deleted it before I could reply so I hope he/she is still out there. >

Re: Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Joris Huizer wrote: Most of my actions were the same, but there's one big difference - do you know why this article recommends: make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image while the other article I used says: make-kpkg --append-to-version=bla kernel_image Well, if -rev is the same as --revision, then the

Re: Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-13 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "N.Pauli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone asked for advice on guides to building a > custom kernel. Unfortunately I > deleted it before I could reply so I hope he/she is > still out there. > > I started off using "Dwarf's Guide to Debian > GNU/Linux" from > http://people.debian.org/~ps

Guide to building a custom kernel

2003-06-13 Thread N . Pauli
Someone asked for advice on guides to building a custom kernel. Unfortunately I deleted it before I could reply so I hope he/she is still out there. I started off using "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" from http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/dwarfs-debian-guide.html but found its section on b