Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

From: Manoj Srivastava (srivasta_at_ieee.org)
Date: 08/18/05

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Date:  Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:15:15 -0500

    On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:05:47 -0400, David R Litwin
    <presently42@gmail.com> 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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