Hi Chris -- You said: > > I can't find kernel-package > anywhere on ftp.debian.org... I found kernel-headers, and kernel-source, > but I already have a tar.gz of the source. It's in rex/binary/misc. It't not clear why.
> Do I even need the kernel-package? What benifits will it give me? kernel-package allows you to make a kernel-image_whatever.deb file. Fetch a new kernel source. Make sure it's clean. If not, run make clean. Then you can (I do) run make config, or make menuconfig, or make xonfig, whatever you like. Then if you run make-kpkg -revision local.1 kernel_image in your top level source directory, you'll have a new .deb file in the directory just above that, which will allow you to install the kernel (and modules) in such a way that they can be managed by the Debian package management system. Personally, I use the kernel-package this way all the time for making custom boot floppies, since the bootdisk.sh script requires a kernel-image_whatever.deb file for its input. HTH, Susan Kleinmann
