For a more exhaustive description of how to build a kernel for debian, see here:
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/debian-testing-building-your-own-linux.html
I'll be brief:
You need 6.6 Gb of free space to build, and a fair amount of free time.
sudo apt-get install kernel-package fakeroot
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.2.9.tar.bz2
tar -xvf linux-3.2.9.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.2.9/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig
make-kpkg clean
-- apply to 32 bit only --
ln -s /home/me/tmp/linux-3.2.9/Documentation/virtual/lguest Documentation/lguest
-- for 32 bit only end --
fakeroot make-kpkg -j4 --initrd --revision=3.2.9 kernel_image kernel_headers
where 4 is the number of cores(3)+1 (e.g. quadcore gives 5)
wait....wait...wait...takes a while...wait...wait...
mv ../linux*3.2.9*.deb .
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Done.
Linux tantalum 3.2.9 #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 15:21:59 EST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Minor note: Navigating Kernel.org
Each minor version has a stable release -- for 3.2.X it was 3.2.8 until 3.2.9 was released. Given that 3.3 is in the works, 3.2.9 will be the stable version of the 3.2 minor version.
"Full source" is the full kernel source, which is what we used in the example above. "Patch" is the difference between the previous version and the current version e.g. 3.2.8 vs 3.2.9 -- there's more information here. You can save both bandwidth and compile time by patching instead of doing a full download.
"Full source" is the full kernel source, which is what we used in the example above. "Patch" is the difference between the previous version and the current version e.g. 3.2.8 vs 3.2.9 -- there's more information here. You can save both bandwidth and compile time by patching instead of doing a full download.
Build times:
Intel Celeron 32 bit (1.6 GHz)
still waiting...
AMD Athlon II X3 using -j4
real 44m56.522sIntel i5-2400 using -j5
user 75m52.633s
sys 12m7.241s
real 22m26.712sAMD Phenom II X7 using -j7
user 50m23.289
sys 6m1.111s
real 28m46.599s
user 81m0.108s
sys 12m57.825s
