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Made this small - but necessary - premise, here are instructions for building the new kernel 2.6.25 for the current stable release of Debian GNU / Linux (code name: Etch).

First you must download the source of the new Linux kernel 2.6.25:

# apt-get -t etch-backports install linux-source-2.6.25

Then proceed as usual:

1. Change to the directory where I placed new sources and scompattiamoli:
   # cd /usr/src
# tar xjf linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2
# ln -s linux-2.6.25 linux
# cd /usr/src/linux
2. Reset (optional) all parameters of compiling and rivediamoli for greater security:
   # make clean && make mrproper
# cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
# make menuconfig
3. Compile the sources and prepare packages. Deb:
   # make-kpkg clean
# fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-tetragono kernel_image kernel_headers
4. We install packages. Deb:
   # cd ..
# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.25-tetragono_2.6.25-tetragono-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
# dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.25-tetragono_2.6.25-tetragono-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

And here's the kernel installed and fully functional:

That's all, folks

Working daily with Debian Etch: the use extreme satisfaction with both on corporate servers that on personnel notebook (the same as I write at this moment). I am a staunch defender of the Stable branch of Debian - and any other operating system - partly because they do a professional and I can not afford the luxury of wasting time or - worse - to undermine the stability of a system to test the last trinket. On my notebook, however, I will often need to exploit a number of features that are absent or incomplete in the kernel 2.6.18, one in all the opportunity to use the NTFS-3G driver to manage the NTFS partitions. Read the rest »