On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Lisi, > > Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > > I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I > > have been shying away for too long. > > > > I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: > > > > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack > > This appears to be really old. > > I suggest looking at > > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ > > and "make-kpkg" from "kernel-package". These are the two approaches I know > of. I still use make-kpkg, cause it does everything for me in just one > command. > > > But I get errors the end of which is below. I tried to copy and paste > > all the error reports that Konsole gave me, but could not manage it. > > Advice, please! > > […] > > > <quote> > > tar: linux-source-3.2/sound/firewire/Makefile: Cannot open: No such > > file or directory > > […] > > > lisi@Titan:/usr/src$ > > </quote> > > Turned out to be a permissions problem. > > So you used your regular user to compile the kernel. > > But a deprecated place for it. Just compile the kernel from a directory in > your home directory. > > See also: > > http://www.kroah.com/lkn/
Thanks, Martin. Yes, I have looked at the website you refer to, and tried to use it. And I have the book to which you refer. The trouble is, that for the basic stuff they are simply above my head. Stephen gives more explanation and more and clearer instructions. I shall certainly avail myself of what the book and http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ say - but shall also use Stephen's site, which I find very useful. So much of the documentation from which one has to work is old - but that doesn't make it useless. And anyway, I think that Stephen updates his site, so it is not outdated. But thank you for the recommendations. Not only might I not have known them, but future readers of the archive might not know of them. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211101915.24963.lisi.re...@gmail.com
