Some of you have probably never seen all of the options and drivers available in a standard Linux kernel, so we are gogin to have a look at the process of downloading a new kernel from kernel.org, selecting our compile options and compiling our own custom kernel.

Here's a link to the how-to that I have always used to compile my kernels.

Here is a list of the commands and steps that I use.

su -

apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot wget bzip2

download the kernel image from kernel.org.

tar jxvf linux-x.y.z.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

cp /path/to/previous/.config /usr/src/linux-x.y.z/

cd /usr/src/linux-x.y.z

make menuconfig

make-kpkg clean

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

cd /usr/src

dpkg -i linux-image-x.y.z_custom1.0_i386.deb