Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On 7/24/06, John O'Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion would be to google for some recent and more Debian-specific kernel-compile how-to's; for example, using make-kpkg makes it a lot simpler by making a .deb kernel package you can then install just like a

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Thank you so much. But... On 7/30/06, Arthur Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the end, assuming that you had all the required disk space and packages, you have a package created: /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.17_2.6.17-10.00.Custom_i386.deb This can be installed using: dpkg -i

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:46:53 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Thank you so much. But... On 7/30/06, Arthur Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the end, assuming that you had all the required disk space and packages, you have a package created:

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Wackojacko
Arthur Marsh wrote: bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 Minor point but this can be done in one step with tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 or tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz see man

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Wackojacko wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0 Minor point but this can be done in one step with tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 or tar -xvzf

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-29 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/24/06, John O'Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion would be to google for some recent and more Debian-specific kernel-compile how-to's; for example, using make-kpkg makes it a lot simpler by making a .deb kernel package you can then install just like a regular package. You do have

Re: kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-24 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 24 July 2006 09:13, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: I just stumbled on these instructions: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/202/1/ I'm mainly interested in fixing my kernel timer resolution to be fine enough for Rosegarden MIDI, but I'm curious about kernel making all the

kernel-compiling noob

2006-07-23 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I just stumbled on these instructions: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/202/1/ I'm mainly interested in fixing my kernel timer resolution to be fine enough for Rosegarden MIDI, but I'm curious about kernel making all the same. I'm using the AGNULA 2.6.14-1-multimedia kernel