Is there a debian specific kernal compiling guide?

jimdaworm · 02-26-2004, 12:44 PM

Hey I am trying to get debian 3.0 working on my computer. I have installed the 2.6.3 kernal source but had problems running make menu config to setup the kernal it didn´t work! I can supply the exact error later if needed but am currently at work

As I am only used to using make menu config. I ended up copying my .config file from my slack install.

I am wondering if there is a Debian specific kernal compiling guide? I guess there is somthing I need to install/upgrade before I can use the make menuconfig command.

Adam

jimdaworm · 02-26-2004, 12:53 PM

I have found some pages that look promising... but won´t know until I try them later... but come back with my results.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949&page=5
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/de...kernel.en.html

adam

llamakc · 02-26-2004, 12:54 PM

If its a new install you don't have the compiler yet. Just apt-get what you need when trying to make menuconfig (you'll need libcurses5-dev too)

jimdaworm · 02-26-2004, 01:00 PM

I don´t have internet at home

Do you have a rough idea what I need to install so that I can download it here at work??

Thanks
Adam

llamakc · 02-26-2004, 01:12 PM

This should cover it:

Code:

[ken:ken](02:11pm)$ apt-cache show kernel-package
Package: kernel-package
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 852
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 7.107
Depends: perl5, dpkg (>= 1.4), dpkg-dev (>= 1.4.0.9), fileutils (>= 4.0)
Recommends: libc-dev, gcc, debianutils, make
Suggests: kernel-source, libdb3-dev, libncurses-dev
Filename: pool/main/k/kernel-package/kernel-package_7.107_all.deb
Size: 205420
MD5sum: 005ddde01f9be9220cf443a47bc4770a
Description: Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
...

So the depends line should cover it.

HTH

jimdaworm · 02-26-2004, 01:17 PM

Thanks llamakc I will try to download them now

Adam

comp12345 · 02-26-2004, 06:09 PM

You may be missing the ncurses library as well.

apt-get install libncurses5-dev

It is required if you are trying to do "make menuconfig".

jimdaworm · 02-28-2004, 10:51 AM

Thanks for the help... by the looks of it it will be easyier to set it up when I have internet at home! It seems to be missing lots of stuff!!

Thanks
Adam