Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Ciao Charles Lewis, make menuconfig (or xconfig) make dep (make clean??) make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 rm /vmlinuz ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 /vmlinuz I have done this script for this

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Charles == Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles And what would be the equivalent steps for doing the same Charles thing using make-kpkg? After reading the man pages, I'm not Charles sure what options I should use or what the resulting deb Charles would be. Please have

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Charles == Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles And what would be the equivalent steps for doing the same Charles thing using make-kpkg? After reading the man pages, I'm not Charles sure what options I should use or what the

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Anthony == Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony in fact, it ought to be available on the official Anthony Debian site (perhaps it is?). It is in /usr/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz, I think. manoj -- Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Oki DZ
Charles Lewis wrote: make menuconfig (or xconfig) make dep (make clean??) make bzImage make modules make modules_install Hi, you have been using slackware for a while, haven't you? Well, it's what I do when recompiling the kernel on slackware. (I learned the hard way that when I copied

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:48:51PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how to do patches) To do a patch: # cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12 # zcat ~/patch-2.2.13.tar.gz | patch -sp1 That'll do the trick. Removing a patch is exactly the same, except

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I've set a few defaults via the conffile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrep -v (^#|^$) /etc/kernel-pkg.conf maintainer := Gregory T. Norris email := [EMAIL PROTECTED] priority := Low debian := custom.1 kimage := bzImage That being done, I proceed as follows: untar ;

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 05:48:51PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I do when I update

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Onno
make menuconfig (or xconfig) make dep (make clean??) make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 rm /vmlinuz ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 /vmlinuz (I learned the hard way that when I copied bzImage directly

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 08:41:47AM +0200, Onno wrote: You'll want to copy the System.map to /boot as well. # cp /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.12 Would you elaborate on that please... I'll try, but I don't know much about the System.map file, so what I tell

Re: manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-27 Thread Mike Werner
So far I've done the same as you, with one exception ... Charles Lewis wrote: Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I

manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-26 Thread Charles Lewis
Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I do when I update the kernel: Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how