On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:36:20 -0600, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:11:10PM -0600, John T. Hoffoss wrote: > > Is there a trick to this? I'm comfortable with kernel compiling in > > Gentoo, but the one time I tried it in Debian, it didn't work out so > > well. Any Debianites have a howto, or know of one? (I've already > > wasted WAY too much time trying to get this to work for me.) > > apt-get install fakeroot kernel-package libncurses5-dev > #extract kernel > #configure kernel > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom1 kernel-image > #get coffee > su - > dpkg -i ../kernel-image-$VER_custom1_i386.deb You just use the vanilla source from kernel.org? Where can I get my current 2.6 config from, since there's no /proc/config.gz? (Can I get that?)