alsa in Debian using the stock 2.4.27 kernel wasRe:hello listers

[Sean McMahon]

One other thing, the command really is make-kpkg kernel_image  kernel_image is
not being used as the substitute for some other file name.  Sourceforge has a
newbedoc project with a doc for kernel-package.  I can send the url to you if
you like.  Kenny, do you know what the kernel-tree and kernel-build packages are
used fore?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: alsa in Debian using the stock 2.4.27 kernel wasRe:hello listers


> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:14:26AM -0400, Eric Kosten wrote:
>
> > Kernel-package packages my 2.4.27 kernel?? Does this allow me to then keep
> > an immage of the kernel for a "fall-back form"?
>
> Yes.
>
> > kernel immage being the 2.6.11.7 kernel source tree that I just downloaded??
> > file name: patch-2.6.11.7.bz2
>
>
> Did you download linux-2.6.11.7.bz2?
> I believe the files from kernel.org that start with patch are used to
> update an existing 2.6 kernel source of an earlier version to the new
> version.  Since you are going from 2.4.27, you should download
> linux-2.6.11.7.tar.bz2.
>
> > This is rather confusing since I have built a total of 2 kernels and this
> > with the help of a friend.
>
> I'm guessing, but your friend probably built the kernel the way
> described in the docs that come in the kernel source tree.  This will
> work on Debian, but you will have to do some things manually that will
> be done for you using the kernel-package program.
>
> One example is if you used grub as your boot loader.  the "make install"
> command doesn't understand Debian's grub, so you will have to edit
> /boot/grub/menu.lst manually after you are done.  The kernel-package is
> a Debian program, so it knows about Debian's grub.
>
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
>
>
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