Productive Linux
ACPI administration advocacy advocacy advocacy opinion alsa apache apple apt aptitude audio authentication awk bash business cache calendar censorship commandline cron database debian desktop development disk dvd economics emacs email europe exim files firefox firewall flash foss freedom ftp fun git grub hardware hardware html images installation ipod kde kernel keyboard knoppix laptop latex locale lockin longlines microsoft mplayer multimedia mysql network nfs openbox openoffice opinion opinion partition pdf perl php politics postgresql printing privacy rant rxvt script scripting scsi security sed server shell siteadmin sitenews sitesoftware skype skype slackware sound spam ssh subversion sudo svk swap t23 t43 terminal text thinkpad thunderbird time timezone ubuntu users versioncontrol video windows wine wordpress wordprocessing xwindows xwindows youtube
Note to self.
First get the source:
apt-get install linux-source-2.2.26
Unpack the source archive and create the symlink:
cd /usr/src/ tar jxf linux-source-2.2.26.tar.bz2 ln -s linux-source-2.2.26 linux cd linux
Don't reconfigure manually, get your old config:
zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
Compile your version with the wonderful fakeroot command:
fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=anumber kernel_image
Install it:
sudo dkpg -i ../linux-image-2.6.26_anumber_i386.deb
And reboot.
Stupid line-break-stealer ;)
Those command should have read thus:
desktop:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz gzip: /proc/config.gz: No such file or directory
desktop:~$ uname -a Linux desktop 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 26 19:14:11 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
desktop:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 5.0
Stumble It!
Digg it
Reddit
Ah, this doesn't work with a standard Debian kernel, at least not on the systems where I've tried it:
desktop:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz gzip: /proc/config.gz: No such file or directory desktop:~$ uname -a Linux desktop 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 26 19:14:11 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux desktop:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 5.0
Posted by lefty.crupps on 2008-12-12 17:17:44.