Ingo: Get the "kernel package" (dselect or apt-get) & install
unpack kernel-source. etc. make menuconfig or xconfig then: make-kpkg clean then: make kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image then: cd /usr/src then: dpkg -i kernel-image(etc).deb Everything will install. No muss, no fuss Got this formula from the kernel package script "HOWTO" Eric > Hi, > > can anybody tell me, what do do, if i don't want to do the complicated > debain way to install a new kernel? > > in former times (SuSE <=6.1 ) i got the sources, and did the > make menuconfig > make dep && make clean && make bzLilo && make modules && make_modules_install > > and that it was. > > Now with debian potato, after booting my new kernel, the System.map was not > correct, and the System did not start. > I don't get depmod to make a new modules.dep. I am to stupid for this :-) > > Is it really the only way to make a new kernel-package and install that via > make-kpkg XXX && dpkg -i my_lovely_new_kernel? > > thanks for help, > > Ingo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > I. Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inst. fuer Angew. Physik +49 251 83-33527 (fon) > Correnstr. 2-4 +49 251 83-33513 (fax) > D-48149 Muenster > Germany > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >