On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:55:31PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I am trying to build a kernel the "Debian way" and am stuck. According > to the FAQ, the first thing a need to do (from memory) is: > make-kpkg --install kernel-package_2.0.36_all.deb > > However, there is no kernel-package_2.0.36.deb package. > > I am in the /usr/src directory, and there are files here called, > (again, from memory) kernel_headers.2.0.36.tar.gz and > kernel_sources.2.0.36.tar.gz . I have the following packages installed: > kernel_headers.2.0.36-3, kernel_source.2.0.36-3, kernel-package.
You should read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz before proceeding. Short version of what it says: Untar/unzip the kernel source, run 'make menuconfig' (or make config or make xconfig), then run 'make-kpkg clean' and 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image'. This will compile the source and create a debian kernel-image package which you can then install. > > So what gives? Do I have to untar/zip the files? Why didn't the > installation do this? I'm afraid to do anything to screw-up the > kernel packages, and I have never built a kernel under Debian. Hmmm, I thought that the installation did that, but I haven't an installed kernel-source package to check. If you have kernel-source, you don't need the kernel-headers (with hamm you did). Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
