Recompile kernel 2.4.18 on Debian 3.0r1

Andreas Janssen but root

I have followed the "Debian Reference Manual" steps:

# apt-get install debhelper modutils kernel-package libncurses5-dev # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 # use latest version # apt-get install fakeroot # vietc-kernel-pkg.conf # input name and email $ cdusr-src # build directory $ tar --bzip2 -xvf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 $ cd kernel-source-2.4.18 # if this is your kernel source $ cpboot-config-2.4.18-386 .config # get current config as default $ make menuconfig # customize as one wishes $ make-kpkg clean # must run (per: man make-kpkg) $ fakeroot make-kpkg --appendtoversion -486 --initrd --revision=rev.01 kernelimage modulesimage # modulesimage is for pcmcia-cs* etc. $ cd .. # dpkg -i kernel-image*.deb pcmcia-cs*.deb # install

I suppressed the "--initrd" opcion because on Srivastava Document I read:

% $GetRoot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernelimage Personally, I prefer non initrd images for my personal machines, since then adding third party modules to the machine has fewere gotchas

But in other section he says:

NOTE: if you have instructed your boot loader to expect initrd kernels (which is the norm for recent official kernel image packages) you need to addd --initrd to the line above

So I am confused about if this option is needed.

I don't understand this. If the kernel is compiled you can't configure it to your needs. Where can I get the precompiled packages ?

that kernel

How must I do it?:

rm vmlinuz-2.4.18 ?

Must I remove link too ? :

boot-vmlinuz-2.4.18