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Kernel building app?

First off, I'm running the latest packages of debian (a kanotix 9a installation).

What I'm looking for is an app that will automatically build an optimized kernel with little or no intervention from me.

I tried doing so with 2.6.10 but the first make step hassled me about the qt-dev packages which I had installed the latest of.

Anything out there?
thanks

If you want a kernel optimised for your machine, you are going to have to configure it. However, you can run

Code:

make oldconfig

to just use the configuration you did last time. I haven't heard of any program that's going to automatically configure the kernel for you.

If you want a program that creates an easily installable Debian package, then install 'kernel-package' and read the manpages for make-kpkg.

Other than that, you can choose a pre-built kernel-image package that matches your processor type, e.g. i686. That won't be optimised specifically for your machine, though, so isn't quite the same thing.