On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:05:47 -0400, David R Litwin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I read entirely through the Creating Custom Kernels with Debian's
> Kernel-Package System and I don't think I really feel like doing
> that. It seems ridiculously elaborate.
Phase ONE: Getting and configuring the kernel
1% cd <kernel source tree> (make sure you have write permission there)
2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig (or, for 2.6.x
kernels, make gconfig) and configure
Phase TWO: Create a portable kernel image .deb file
3% make-kpkg clean
4% $Get_Root make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
(Get_Root is whatever you need to become root -- fakeroot or
sudo are examples that come to mind). NOTE: if you have
instructed your boot loader to expect initrd kernels (which is
the norm for recent official kernel image packages) you need to
add --initrd to the line above.
% $Get_Root make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
Personally, I prefer non initrd images for my personal machines,
since then adding third party modules to the machine has fewer
gotchas
Phase THREE: Install the kernel image on one or more machines
5# dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb
With the addition of fakeroot ( a really nice program, I recommend
it). Steps 1 to 4 can be carried out as a non root user. Step 5 does
require root privileges.
If this is ridiculously complex, umm. are you sure you want to
be running Sid?
manoj
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