I've successfully accomplished what I needed, but I ended up doing everything as root. I use xconfig, and that wouldn't work unless I logged into X as root. So:
a) How "bad" is it doing everything as root? b) How/where is this done that files can be created and xconfig run without being root? I've used the source where it already is - /usr/src John On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, David Z Maze wrote: > Since, surprisingly, nobody's pointed it out yet, you might want to > look into the Debian kernel-package package. This builds Debian > packages out of kernels, making it easier to build, install, and > manage them. If you want to build a kernel, cd to the top of the > kernel source tree, then > > make menuconfig > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=whatever buildpackage > fakeroot make-kpkg modules > cd .. > dpkg -i *.deb > > The first line runs the standard kernel configuration utility. The > second actually builds packages of the kernel source, header files, > documentation, and the kernel to be installed. The third builds > whatever module source trees you have installed to build extra Debian > packages out of external kernel modules. The last goes off and > installs the packages (and needs to be done as root).