On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Duane Powers wrote: > I need to make some serious changes to my kernels, on various servers at > my location, I have everything from > 486's up to 1.2Gig boxes, so rather than compiling on the cpu and > RAM-challenged boxes, I'd like to make kernels > on one of my more powerful boxes. What do I need to be aware of when > doing this? Anything? Do I need to copy > anything other than the bzImage and system map? If I compile for module > support, what do I need to move to the > target machine?
Take a look at the kernel-package package. After you have done your "make menuconfig" (or equivalent) you can use "make-kpkg [options] kernel-image" to make a .deb of your kernel - and we can all do "dpkg -i ..." ;-) One of the thorniest issues is naming of package versions - read the kernel-package docs regarding this. HTH, Neale.
