[NMLUG] ubuntu and me

[kevin at rosenberg.net (Kevin Rosenberg)]

havoc wrote:
> Is it just me, or is compiling/installing a new kernel in Debian really
> that much different?

The preferred way to compile and install new kernels in Debian is
using make-kpkg, part of the the kernel-package package. Likely,
ubuntu has snarfed that from Debian so it should be available on
ubuntu systems as well.

It's rather simple to use:

apt_get install kernel-package
cd /usr/src/kernel-source-<x.x.x>
make-kpkg clean
make xconfig
make-kpkg kernel_image
make-kpkg modules_image
cd ..
dpkg -i kernel-image-<x.x.x>*deb modules-image-<x.x.x>*deb

Install those debs should update lilo or grub with the newly available
kernel versions. Though, older versions of Debian may need some
changes to /etc config files to automatically run update-grub during
the installation of the new kernel debian package.

-- 
Kevin Rosenberg
kevin@rosenberg.net