Patching & Recompiling Kernel

John Hornbeck hornbeck at freeshell.org
Wed Oct 13 04:44:36 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 21:21 -0700, Can Sar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I emailed the list earlier, about a problem I had, but I tracked it 
> down, and can formulate it as a simple question now. I need to change 1 
> or 2 lines in the Linux Kernel, and then recompile it. Where can I find 
> the sources in Ubuntu (do I have to install them) and is there some 
> place I can go for information on how to recompile it. I found a 
> general guide for Debian (http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm) 
> but I'm not sure if it applies.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> Can Sar
> 
You can get the source by "sudo apt-get install linux-source".  I will
have a guide on the wiki(wiki.ubuntu.com) in the morning.
John
> 




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