[Prism54-users] Debian install

[James Hosken]

What I don't under stand is what I need to replace
"----append_to_version" and "kernel_image" with from
make-kpkg --config=menuconfig ----append_to_version=prism54 kernel_image

I have got the debian kernel-source-2.6.0-test9

James







Quoting "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu>:

> 
> too many -----
> just use two
> 	Luis
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, James Hosken wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > apt-get install hotplug
> > > dpkg -L hotplug | grep firmware
> > >
> > > see if you find firmware.agent if not you need to use the
> unstable hotplug
> > > package. You can possibly also just add the file if you don't
> have it:
> > >
> > > http://prism54.org/~hvr/firmware.agent
> > >
> > > You don't really need to use debian's make-kpkg to make the
> kernel.
> > > But if you insist onto doing it, IIRC it's something like:
> > >
> > > apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev tx8.3-dev
> > > cd /path/kernel-source/
> > > make-kpkg clean
> > > make-kpkg --config=menuconfig ----append_to_version=prism54
> kernel_image
> > > cd ..
> > > dpkg -i kernel-image-something_.deb
> > >
> >
> > It's all working up to the point where I beed to run
> > make-kpkg --config=menuconfig ----append_to_version=prism54
> kernel_image
> >
> > What are the oprions I need to put in here?
> > append_to_version?
> > kernel_image?
> >
> >
> > I have apt-get kernel-source-2.6.0-test9
> >
> >
> > When I come to make the .deb do I need to add any other options to
> the
> > kernal compile from the default?
> > How can I make sure that the the machine will boot once I have
> installed
> >   the new kernel.deb?
> >
> > Cheers
> > James