On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 04:54:23PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Forget it. Get the kernel-package*.deb Install it, and use it (read the > > doc!) Here is a hint: > > > > # make menuconfig > > # make-kpkg -r custom_1.0 kernel_image > ^^^^^ > don't > > # cd .. > > # dpkg -i <the name of the created debfile> > > # lilo > > Some corrections; this is from /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz: > .. > > For the Brave and the impatient: > 1% cd <kernel source tree> > 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure > 3% make-kpkg clean > 4% make-kpkg -r=custom.1.0 kernel_image > 5% dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb > 6% shutdown -r now # If and only if LILO worked or you have a means of > # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! > .. > > You should _not_ use a "_" in the revision number! As tempting as it may > seem, it actually interferes with the policy.
[worthful information snipped] Yes, you are right, my fault, sorry everyone. I hope I wrote a disclaimer under my actual post, that it was from memory, and that memory fails. This was the case :) I shouldn't write mail from university, where I can't refer to my home system. (No debian in university yet, they use HP as a central server. I wonder why.) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .