Compiling a Linux Kernel on Debian

sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev bison flex libssl-dev libelf-dev
#make sure you have plenty of room on you drive
#get the kernel from http://kernel.org
url="$(wget -qO- "https://www.kernel.org/"|grep tar|head -n 1|cut -d\" -f2)"
wget "$url" -O linux.tar.xz
tar -xJvf linux.tar.xz

cd linux
make clean && make mrproper
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
make menuconfig
#choose “LOAD” and “.config” then exit and save

#This will take a while
#make-kpkg clean
#fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers
make deb-pkg clean
fakeroot make deb-pkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers

#this creates two .deb files in the current dir
#install them