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5 Configure The Kernel

It's a good idea to use the configuration of your current working kernel as a basis for your new kernel. Therefore we copy the existing configuration to /usr/src/linux:

make clean && make mrproper
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config

Then we run

make menuconfig

which brings up the kernel configuration menu. Go to Load an Alternate Configuration File and choose .config (which contains the configuration of your current working kernel) as the configuration file:

Then browse through the kernel configuration menu and make your choices. Make sure you specify a kernel version identification string under General Setup ---> () Local version - append to kernel release. I use -default1 so our kernel .deb package will be named linux-2.6.18.3-default1_2.6.18.3-default1_i386.deb. Please make sure that the string contains a digit (e.g. 1, 2, ...) because otherwise the kernel build process will result in an error.

Please note: After you have installed linux-2.6.18.3-default1_2.6.18.3-default1_i386.deb and decide to compile another 2.6.18.3 kernel .deb package, it is important to use a different version string, e.g. -default2, -default3, etc., because otherwise you can't install your new kernel because dpkg complains that linux-2.6.18.3-default1_2.6.18.3-default1_i386.deb is already installed!