Ahmad Al-Obaidy IRAQI open sourcer

Having a flu, gave me a couple of hours in bed to try to build Linux kernel from the source. I tried the 8th release candidate of 2.6.29 kernel. Everything went so smooth and without problems.

#install the required packages for the compilation 
sudo apt-get install build-essential bin86 kernel-package libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev wget libncurses5 libncurses5-dev fakeroot

# download and unpack the source
mkdir kernel
cd kernel
wget -c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.29-rc8.tar.gz
tar -vxzf linux-2.6.29-rc8.tar.gz

cd  linux-2.6.29-rc8/

# import the old compilation settings
cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config && yes "" | make oldconfig

# do extra config if you need to
make menuconfig

# start building
CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=3 fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=386 kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
# install the compiled kernel
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

It took about 90 minute to complete for me. It may took much more on older computers.