[ILUG] Debian or Fedora?

[pbm]

Declan Grady, Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:41:25AM +0000:
> Am now in process of changing over the other tow redhat boxes to debian boxes.
> (once I figure out the kernel package thingy !)

if the kernel package thingy is "how to recompile a kernel in the Debian
way", there are two simple answers:
1) You don't need to recompile the kernel
2) Unless you don't need some non-stock features, it's as easy as to

apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.xx
cd /usr/src
tar xvjf kernel-source-2.4.xx.tar.bz2
cd kernel-source-2.4.xx
cp /boot/config-2.4.xx-whatever .config  # just to have a starting point with default answers
make-kpkg --revision NN --append-to-version -whatever --initrd --us --uc kernel-image
 # where NN is a number of choice and "whatever" a string telling more
 # about your kernel features

et voila :)

Should you ever need pecuilar features that require patches, like, say,
preempt, you need to install the debian package of that patch:
apt-get install kernel-patch-2.4-preempt

and launch another make-kpkg command line:
PATCH_THE_KERNEL=YES make-kpkg --added-patches preempt --revision NN --append-to-version -whatever --initrd --us --uc kernel-image

Operate in a similar way for added-modules (like i2c or lm-sensors).

You'll end up with a nice .deb file ready for dpkg -i  :)
p.
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