• Install the meta package slitaz-toolchain. This package contains the basic packages:
  • binutils
  • linux-headers
  • glibc-dev
  • gcc
  • make

# tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain

• Install the packages required to configure and compile the kernel sources.
  • ncurses-dev
  • perl

# tazpkg get-install ncurses-dev
# tazpkg get-install perl

• SliTaz provides the package linux-source. The kernel sources will be downloaded from the mirror, installed in the directory /usr/src/linux-<VERSION>, and patched for SliTaz.

# tazpkg get-install linux-source
# /usr/bin/get-linux-source
# ls -l /usr/src
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Jul 21 21:27 linux -> linux-2.6.25.5-slitaz
drwxrwxr-x   23 root     root         4096 Jul 21 22:41 linux-2.6.25.5-slitaz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     48589640 Jul 21 21:28 linux-2.6.25.5.tar.bz2

The Linux kernel sources are now ready to be configured and compiled.

• Change working directory to the kernel source tree directory.

# cd /usr/src/linux

• Preparing the build from the default configuration:

# make oldconfig && make prepare

• Modify the kernel configuration to your needs, and compile.
• The menuconfig allows you to customise the kernel, which is built into the bzImage file. Any modules are built and then installed in to the /usr/include directory. You should then copy the kernel itself to the /boot directory.

# make menuconfig
# make
# make modules 
# make modules_install
# cp   arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot

• Configure the bootloader (optional)

# leafpad /boot/grub/menu.lst

• Add the new kernel to the list

# My kernel:
title 	SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel //version//)
		root (hd0,1)
		kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda2