These are the steps I went through upgrading the kernels on my Debian systems, so I'd thought I'd share them
These instructins apply only to Debian 3.0
3.1 uses a different method of upgrading and now doesn't require the use of debian packages to upgrade the kernel.
Let me know if you find any errors or typos in the code.
Install Prerequisites
apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot bzip2
Update
cd /usr/src
Get the latest kernel version from kernel.org
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.xx.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-2.4.xx.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.4.xx/
make menuconfig
Load old configuration from /boot, make changes and save
make dep
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg –revision=custom.1.x kernel_image
cd ../
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.xx_custom_1.x_i386.deb
shutdown -r now
These instructins apply only to Debian 3.0
3.1 uses a different method of upgrading and now doesn't require the use of debian packages to upgrade the kernel.
Let me know if you find any errors or typos in the code.
Install Prerequisites
apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot bzip2
Update
cd /usr/src
Get the latest kernel version from kernel.org
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.xx.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-2.4.xx.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.4.xx/
make menuconfig
Load old configuration from /boot, make changes and save
make dep
make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg –revision=custom.1.x kernel_image
cd ../
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.xx_custom_1.x_i386.deb
shutdown -r now