Thanks John,
What is the purpose of the --initrd option? I know it creates a ramdisk
but what is put in there and why should it be needed? I thought the
kernel would have the necessary drivers compiled in to access everything
needed to continue. I noticed this ramdisk in the stock 2.4.27 kernel
bu
It pretty much is that simple, though if you're compiling from source,
you do have to configure the kernel before running make-kpkg. Here's
the steps I usually take:
1) Install kernel-source package of my choosing. This puts a tarball of
the source tree in /usr/src.
2) Untar source tree with
I've recently installed a new machine using the 'testing' branch and it
came with a stock 2.4.27 kernel. I'd like to move to a custom 2.6 kernel
but I'm not not sure of the procedure.
Is it as simple as installing kernel-package, a 2.6 kernel source
package, running make-kpkg against it then insta
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