[Gllug] kernel

Mamading Ceesay evangineer at ntlworld.com
Wed Jan 14 22:03:31 UTC 2004


On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:38:21 +0000
"Simon A. Boggis" <simon at dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> I personally like to use make-kpkg to build debian packages of kernels -
> as well as building neat packages it takes care of initrd (if used),
> which you'll find in package "kernel-package", with instructions in
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/. BTW if you're building the debian way
> you should also install the source for any non-kernel modules packages
> and unpack into /usr/src/modules (e.g. alsa).
> 

I recently built a 2.4.23 kernel for debian using the methods that Simon described.  A critical step as he already mentioned was to re-use the old 2.4.18-bfx config.

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