Compile Kernel Debian Way

As I regularly needs this, his is the way I'm recompiling my Linux kernel:

• apt-get install build-essential
• apt-get install linux-source-2.6.26

Go to /usr/src and decompress the kernel source. It's the kernel soruce of the Debian kernel, with the Debian changes and patches.

• Copy the config to the kernel soruce folder: cp /boot/config-2.6.26-2-amd64 /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/.config
• cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/
• Apply the changes you want to use in the .config file
• make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version "amd64vmware1" --revision 2.6.26-2 buildpackage

And you have your new kernel, in a Debian package, in /usr/src. If you want to recompile your kernel, with other options:

• cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.26/
• make-kpkg clean
• Apply the changes you want to use in the .config file
• make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version "amd64vmware2" --revision 2.6.26-2 buildpackage

Every time you recompile an other version, maybe change the "append-to-version" ...