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Here are the 10 steps to get drunk:

1. Open a console and become root with the su command.

   su

2. Than download the source in /usr/src:

   cd /usr/src/
   wget ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/linux-kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2
   

3. Unpack the bziped file:

   tar -jxvf linux-2.4.29.tar.bz2

4. Don’t forget to symlink /usr/src/linux to the linux-2.4.29 dir, or else the compiler will fale!!

   ln -s linux-2.4.29 linux

5. Now you’ll need some packages so you’ll be able to configure the kerel with a GUI and beable to make the .deb packages.

   apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package

6. Now configure the kernel for your machine…

   cd /usr/src/linux
   make menuconfig
     

7. Now comes the compiling of the packages.

   make-kpkg clean
   make-kpkg --revision=custom.myfisrttry.1.0 kernel_image
      

This can take a while, make some coffee…

8. When you have modules enabled and downloaded to /usr/src/modules you also should compile the modules.

   make-kpkg --revision=custom.myfisrttry.1.0 modules_image

9. Now you should have your .deb kernel packages in /usr/src. If
   there was an error, you should do the last step again! We have them?
   Let’s install them…

   dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.29_custom.myfirsttry.1.0_i386.deb

   And if you have some module deps you should install them too!

10. Reboot the machine and pray…

    reboot

11. Drink beer!

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