Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I do when I update the kernel:
Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how to do patches) cd /usr/src tar zxpvf kernel-source-2.2.12.tar.gz cd kernel-source-2.2.12 make menuconfig (or xconfig) make dep (make clean??) make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 rm /vmlinuz ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 /vmlinuz (I learned the hard way that when I copied bzImage directly to /vmlinuz, I was overwriting the previous kernel in /boot) Now, my question is, is what I do above pretty much what everyone else does? And what would be the equivalent steps for doing the same thing using make-kpkg? After reading the man pages, I'm not sure what options I should use or what the resulting deb would be. This is what I've been able to glean so far: make menuconfig make-kpkg clean?? make-kpkg --revision 1.0 --bzimage kernel_image dpkg -i ??? Another question is what exactly is the difference between bzimage and zimage, and which one should I be using? =========================================== Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 ===========================================
