Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Anthony" == Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> in fact, it ought to be available on the official Anthony> Debian site (perhaps it is?). It is in /usr/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz, I think. manoj -- Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Charles" == Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Charles> And what would be the equivalent steps for doing the same > Charles> thing using make-kpkg? After reading the man pages, I'm not > Charles> sure what options I should use or wha

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Charles" == Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> And what would be the equivalent steps for doing the same Charles> thing using make-kpkg? After reading the man pages, I'm not Charles> sure what options I should use or what the resulting deb Charles> would be. Ple

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Charles Lewis, > make menuconfig (or xconfig) > make dep (make clean??) > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 > rm /vmlinuz > ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 /vmlinuz I have done this script for

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Mike Werner
So far I've done the same as you, with one exception ... Charles Lewis wrote: > > Warning: newbie question... > > I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm > not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or > not. Here is an example of wha

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 08:41:47AM +0200, Onno wrote: > >You'll want to copy the System.map to /boot as well. > ># cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.12 > > Would you elaborate on that please... I'll try, but I don't know much about the System.map file, so what I te

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Onno
> make menuconfig (or xconfig) > make dep (make clean??) > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install > cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 > rm /vmlinuz > ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 /vmlinuz > (I learned the hard way that when I copied bzImage

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:48:51PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > Warning: newbie question... > > I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm > not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or > not. Here is an example of what I do when I updat

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I've set a few defaults via the conffile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrep -v "(^#|^$)" /etc/kernel-pkg.conf maintainer := Gregory T. Norris email := [EMAIL PROTECTED] priority := Low debian := custom.1 kimage := bzImage That being done, I proceed as follows: untar ; m

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:48:51PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how to do patches) To do a patch: # cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12 # zcat ~/patch-2.2.13.tar.gz | patch -sp1 That'll do the trick. Removing a patch is exactly the same, except

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Oki DZ
Charles Lewis wrote: > make menuconfig (or xconfig) > make dep (make clean??) > make bzImage > make modules > make modules_install Hi, you have been using slackware for a while, haven't you? Well, it's what I do when recompiling the kernel on slackware. > (I learned the hard way that when I cop

manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-26 Thread Charles Lewis
Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I do when I update the kernel: Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how t