In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Is there a Debian-specific howto or man page for recompiling
> the kernel? I apt-got the kernel-source-2.2.14 and
> kernel-package packages, but after installation, /usr/src
> did not have a directory containing the source for kernel
> 2.2.14 - just a single file, whose extension was .bz2. What
> do I do with that file to get a source diectory?
It's a bzip2 archive. tar handles those with the -I switch
so tar xIvf will uncompress it.
I recommend installing the kernel-package*.deb package to make
your kernel. The README to that package says something like
1. untar the source
2. make config -- go with make xconfig if you have tcl/tk installed;
much easier
3. make-kpkg clean
4. make-kpkg --revision=hostname.1.x kernel-image
5. install kernel-image*.deb
6. reboot
That's it. There are some fiddly bits -- using fakeroot,
renaming lib/modules if you're installing the same version,
make a backup boot disk in case you screw up -- but the
above will usually work.
