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[Michael C. Thorogood]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

>hi,
>Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2004, 19:21 -0600 schrieb Michael C. Thorogood:
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>>>Is there a howto for compling the kernel?
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>>>Anything special I need to watch for??
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>yep, additional to this howto, keep in mind that the ubuntu kernel
>source is called linux-source-x.x.x and that you need the initrd option
>in the make-kpkg command, as ubuntu needs it.
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>>http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm
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>ciao
>	oli
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So that must be the reason that I couldn't install a new kernel I built 
yesterday.  How is it that Ubuntu needs the --initrd option for the 
make-kpkg command but Debian doesn't?

danke schoen