Thank you for the advice. I have gotten that far and went that far again. Below is what I am doing:
kversion="4.14.2" cd ~/kernel/linux-$kversion # uname -r # 4.9.0-4-amd64 cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config yes '' | make oldconfig # There are TONS of new options make -j 4 deb-pkg I get everything I would expect (other than the compilation directory being 19GB) and can successfully install the debs. When I restart things, my keyboard doesn't work (well it types tons of the character 'o'. I also get the error that module 'pcskr' is already loaded. I will try to get this puppy booted and ssh into it. Any further tips would be appreciated! Cheers