Compileing Kernel From Source
Created by: Gingerbreadman


1.Prepareing the system

First of all you may want to Sudo su your terminal before you begin
download the latest kernel from kernel.org (make sure you download the kernel source not just a patch)
open a terminal and sudo apt-get install build-essential kernel-package bin86 libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libncurses5-dev fakeroot
once the kernel source is downloaded move it to /usr/src and unpack it
cd /usr/src


2. Prepareing the Kernel

From your terminal cd to where you unpacked the kernel source (eg. cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.30)
now we need to copy your current config just to make things easy cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config


3.Now we are ready to open the config tool

if you use kde make xconfig
if you use gnome make gconfig
if you dont use either make menuconfig
configure the kernel any way you like :-) once your done save and exit the config tool

4. Compile the kernel

Gets easier now make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-cookie kernel_image kernel_headers
this will leave you with 2 debian packages your new kernel and kernel headers ( tho headers arnt always needed)


5. Install the Kernel

dpkg -i both your 2 new deb packages
check to make sure it updated grub correctly
reboot and see if it works if not boot into your old kernel and try again