Compiling a custom Ubuntu Kernel step by step

I want to list here brefly all steps to compile a custom Ubuntu kernel

• sudo -s
• apt-get install kernel-source kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot
• cd /usr/src
• tar xvjf tar xjvf linux-source-`uname -r`.tar.bz2
• ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.31 linux
• cd /usr/src/linux
• cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/linux/.config
• make menuconfig
• Now you can modify the kernel configuration…
• make-kpkg clean
• fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers

After some time you will have debian packages like: linux-image-xxx.deb linux-headers-xxx.deb in /usr/src

Use dpkg -i *.deb to install it, reboot your machine and select them in grub/lilo.