Hi,
* Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030728 11:48]: > Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start > tinkering with kernel compilation. > > I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my choice? "Need" is not strictly true since you could just get the source from kernel.org. However I would recommend using the Debian kernel-source packages which have a had a few security patched applied. > But it are there any other package(s) I'd need to download to get > started? Anything that is "needed" will be in the "Depends" field for the kernel-source package, so it will be installed automatically if you apt-get install your kernel source. Look at the "Suggests" and "Recommends" of the kernel-source. eg apt-cache show kernel-source-2.4.21. You will need gcc, make and libc-dev to compile the kernel. Additionally you may want libncurses-dev to use menuconfig and I highly recommend using make-kpkg from the kernel-package package when doing the compilation. Have a look in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package, and I believe there is a good Debian kernel howto at newbiedoc on the web (sorry not exactly sure where). Good luck, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test1-looxt93c6 #1 Thu Jul 17 16:49:12 JST 2003 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
