Thanks. That gives me several possible routes to follow. On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:05:18PM -0700, Shane wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:43:17AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > I would like to make a smooth upgrade from Shane's 2.6.17-speakup > > package to the new 2.6.18 kernel, and could use some advice doing this. > > Well if you want to stick with the package, I'll probably > have one shortly. Just gotta get the amd64 system back up > so I can compile for that arch. > > > If I patch the 2.6.18 source tree with speakup (already done), do a make > > mrproper (already done), copy over the existing 2.6.17-speakup > > configuration into the new source directory and run make oldconfig > > (already done), and then run make (running while I am typing this), > > Assuming you haven't installed already, the suggested way > of doing this is the following: > as root: > apt-get build-dep linux-2.6 > exit root shell > That will install any packages needed to compile the kernel > assuming you have appropriate deb-src lines in sources.list > > Grab kernel, unpack and setup the .config file as you've > done > then: > make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1 --rootcmd fakeroot \ > --us --uc --initrd kernel-image > > That should generate a linux-image-xxx.deb which you can > just install with dpkg -i and should take care of the > initrd image. > > As an alternative, someone else suggested going without an > initrd which you can certainly do and avoid the deb stuff. > If you do that however, you need to go through the configs > and make sure your root FS and support drivers are compiled > directly into the kernel and not as modules as they are by > default under Debian. For example, ext3, ide core support. > Basically any module which is needed to mount the root FS. > > S > > -- > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (33% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
