On Wednesday 14 April, Pollywog wrote: > If I need to upgrade a kernel on a Debian system, can I do it in the > same way as it is done with other distributions or is there some > obscure Debian way to do this?
you can do it the standard way (and I did it this way for months), or you can follow the advice of many on this list and try the make-kpkg utility. I now use make-kpkg every time. I don't really understand that much of what make-kpkg is capable of, but I use it to make .deb kernel packages (which I can then install on several boxes without needing to faff around copying all sorts of files around). I do something like this; % cd /usr/src/linux % make-kpkg clean % make xconfig % make-kpkg --revision mykernel.1 kernel_image It then makes a package in /usr/src. Job's a good'un... -- Graham
