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+The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ +
Chapter 10 - Debian and the kernel +

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10.1 Can I install and compile a kernel without some Debian-specific tweaking?

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+Yes. +

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+There's only one common catch: the Debian C libraries are built with the most +recent stable releases of the kernel headers. If you +happen to need to compile a program with kernel headers newer than the ones +from the stable branch, then you should either upgrade the package containing +the headers (libc6-dev), or use the new headers from an unpacked +tree of the newer kernel. That is, if the kernel sources are in +/usr/src/linux, then you should add +-I/usr/src/linux/include/ to your command line when compiling. +

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10.2 What tools does Debian provide to build custom kernels?

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+Users who wish to (or must) build a custom kernel are encouraged to download +the package kernel-package. This package contains the script to +build the kernel package, and provides the capability to create a Debian +linux-image-version package just by running the command +

+ +
+     make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
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+in the top-level kernel source directory. Help is available by executing the +command +

+ +
+     make-kpkg --help
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+and through the manual page make-kpkg(1). +

+ +

+Users must separately download the source code for the most recent kernel (or +the kernel of their choice) from their favorite Linux archive site, unless a +linux-source-version package is available (where +version stands for the kernel version). +

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+Detailed instructions for using the kernel-package package are +given in the file /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. +

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10.3 How can I make a custom boot floppy?

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+This task is greatly aided by the Debian package boot-floppies, +normally found in the admin section of the Debian FTP archive. +Shell scripts in this package produce boot floppies in the +SYSLINUX format. These are MS-DOS formatted floppies +whose master boot records have been altered so that they boot Linux directly +(or whatever other operating system has been defined in the +syslinux.cfg file on the floppy). Other scripts in this package +produce emergency root disks and can even reproduce the base disks. +

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+You will find more information about this in the +/usr/share/doc/boot-floppies/README file after installing the +boot-floppies package. +

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10.4 What special provisions does Debian provide to deal with modules?

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+Debian's modconf package provides a shell script +(/usr/sbin/modconf) which can be used to customize the +configuration of modules. This script presents a menu-based interface, +prompting the user for particulars on the loadable device drivers in his +system. The responses are used to customize the file +/etc/modules.conf (which lists aliases, and other arguments that +must be used in conjunction with various modules) through files in +/etc/modutils/, and /etc/modules (which lists the +modules that must be loaded at boot time). +

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+Like the (new) Configure.help files that are now available to +support the construction of custom kernels, the modconf package +comes with a series of help files (in /usr/lib/modules_help/) +which provide detailed information on appropriate arguments for each of the +modules. +

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10.5 Can I safely de-install an old kernel package, and if so, how?

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+Yes. The linux-image-NNN.prerm script checks to see +whether the kernel you are currently running is the same as the kernel you are +trying to de-install. Therefore you can remove unwanted kernel image packages +using this command: +

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+     dpkg --purge linux-image-NNN
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+(replace NNN with your kernel version and revision number, of +course) +

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+The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ +

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