Compiling a Custom Kernel for Ubuntu

1. Install necessary packages:
1. apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2

1. Download the kernel sources from www.kernel.org
2. Extract them
   
3. ln -s linux-kernel-version linux
4. change directory into "linux"
   
5. Copy the current kernel's config:
1. cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
6. Start the GUI kernel configuration
1. make menuconfig
7. Save the config
8. Start the compile
1. make-kpkg clean
2. fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers
9. After it's done compiling, which may take 30 minutes or much more you will have to .deb packages in the /usr/src directory, install them
   
1. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.23-custom_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
2. dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.6.23-custom_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
10. verify that the entries are in grub
1. vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
11. reboot