6. Using make-kpkg to build the new kernel and pcmcia-source modules

Steps to build the kernel

• Be sure the pcmcia-source is under /usr/src/modules.

• Go ahead and configure your kernel and be sure that pcmcia support IS NOT compiled in as an option in the kernel.

• To build the kernel and pcmcia-source, be sure you are under the

  /usr/src/linux

  or have a symbolic link from /usr/src/linux pointing to whatever kernel source you have set up.

• Type

  make-kpkg clean

  to clean

• Then type

  make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image modules_image

The kernel_image option will build the kernel while the modules_image option will build all modules located under

/usr/src/modules/

After some chugging, go up one level to

/usr/src

kernel-image-2.4.19-pre4_custom.1.0_i386.deb
pcmcia-modules-2.4.19-pre4_3.1.31-7+custom.1.0_i386.deb

You first want to install the kernel image so you would type

dpkg -i kernel-image-etc....

Now install the modules by typing

dpkg -i pcmcia-modules.etc...

There are a couple of assumptions that make-kpkg makes about your lilo.conf file. One is that you have not radically changed it. Make-kpgk will make make symbolics links from '/boot' where the actual kernel resides to 'vmlinuz' which is under '/'. In other words, under '/', you will see vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old which are symbolic links to the real kernel images under /boot/. Anyway if you have any questions ask me.