Well I am looking at the compiling a new kernel section 8.5) of
Installing Debian and it looks like a am not doing it the debian way. I
will write back with more info if I cannot get it to work the debian
way. I am still fairly new to debian, but not for long :)
Stephen
Mytho X wrote:
> Is there anything special I should know about to compile a kernel in
> debian? I am having some trouble with it.
>
> I used dselect to download the kernel (kernel-2.2.18pre21).
> Then bzcat kernel-2.2.18pre21 | tar xvf -
> and then ln -s kernel-2.2.18pre21 linux
>
> I backed up my old files and tried to do a make menuconfig and it errors
> out, I then tried a make xconfig and that errors out. So I did a make
> config and that worked.
>
> Did the make dep , clean , bzImage and now I can not find bzImage anywhere.
>
> Stephen
