I never found good documentation on upgrading/compiling linux kernel in Debian, Most of the time I stuck in between and my running libs gets corrupted, then same story; Put new hard disk, Install latest Debian, mount old HDD and copy all the contents.
After reading/research documents in net, I setup my step-by-step Linux kernel up-gradation (Bash Script) in Debian. up-till now I upgraded more than 5 Debian kernels without any problem. http://opensourcedevelopment.net/text-tutorials/upgrading-compiling-linux-kernel-in-debian.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Upgrade-Compile-linux-kernel-in-Debian-tf4121770.html#a11722074 Sent from the debian-kernel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.