Difference between revisions of "Install kernel from RPM on Debian 6.0"

Revision as of 09:09, 5 February 2012

You can use the latest RHEL6-based kernel builds on your Debian 6.0 machine. Here's how.

1. Get the latest kernel and utils from Download/kernel/rhel6 and Download/utils. You need

vzkernel-devel is optional.

2. Install fakeroot and alien.

apt-get install fakeroot alien

3. Convert all the RPMs to debs using alien.

fakeroot alien --to-deb --scripts --keep-version vz*.rpm

4. Install debs.

dpkg -i vz*.deb

5. Modify /boot/grub/menu.lst. See “configuring the bootloader” of Quick installation.

6. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf. See “sysctl” of Quick installation.

7. Make OpenVZ boots automatically.

update-rc.d vz defaults

8. Reboot.

reboot

9. Follow the Quick installation from “installing OS template caches”.

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