On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 23:29, Craig Dickson wrote: > Dumb question: why does Debian like to have a symlink, /vmlinuz, > pointing to the kernel image in /boot? Does some program depend on being > able to find the kernel at /vmlinuz? Would something break if I simply > deleted this symlink? > > I ask because I install kernels by hand, and I use a naming scheme for > my kernels that tells me what they are and when they were built, e.g. > vmlinuz-2.4.18-ac2-020226 is a 26 Feb 2002 build of 2.4.18-ac2. This > means I have to go change the /vmlinuz symlink every time I install a > new kernel, and I'm wondering if I can safely just delete the link and > never bother with it again. > > Thanks, > > Craig
me thinks you would like make-kpkg (kernel-package)
