You can create a directory /usr/local/src in it you unpack the kernel-source-2.0.35.tar.gz which goes into a subdir /usr/local/src/linux cd to it make menuconfig (or xconfig) make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
if you have modules in /usr/src/modules which you want to compile with this kernel, append modules_image to the line above. This creates a package kernel-source-2.0.35+custom...deb in /usr/local/src which you can install via dpkg - i /usr/local/src/packagename.deb then, you'll have a vmlinuz and a vmlinuz.old in / which point to the different kernels in /boot. edit /etc/lilo.conf so as to be able to boot from the new and the old kernel run lilo -v -v and reboot. ________________________________________________________ | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | |____________________________|___________________________| | badii "at" psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | |____________________________|___________________________|
