David J Patrick said:

I'll be following (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949) *The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

That one's good....but if you're already running a properly configured kernel, why not just use "make oldconfig"? This allows you to use your current config file as a base for your new system. It'll run you through all the changes in the new kernel (and give you a suggested default). In terms of other resources, I like this one: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Took me a while to understand everything that was in it (and it is exclusive to Debian). As it suggests up near the top--read the whole thing BEFORE you start compiling. There are steps near the end which are optional and should actually be done at the beginning. emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin Xtrinsic -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml