[Question]:Making Ubuntu 8.04 Gnome faster

[praka123]

How to custom kernel .deb

you are doing the wrong way boy!.that method is good for distros like fedora/suse.
remember 2.6.25 kernel faces problem with nvidia driver though latest driver 173.x does support .25 but without xen support.

I dont like "sudo" .so for the next steps ,I assume you are on a root terminal with "#" prompt generally.

In ubuntu, you do this to get root terminal :

sudo su -

I will brief my tutorial here:
1.

 apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

with internet ON

2.

apt-get install build-essential kernel-package libc6-i686  initramfs-tools libncurses5-dev

3.extract kernel source in .tar.bz2 format into /usr/src/ directory (in terminal use "tar -jxvf linux.tar.bz2)

4.change into /usr/src/linux-2.6.25 from terminal using :

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.25

5.now,

make clean && make mrproper

6.

cp /boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/.config

7. now we have to customize :-

make menuconfig

8.press exit once you finishes.

9.now

make-kpkg clean

10. run :

make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-gary-kernel kernel_headers kernel_image

Once the compilation is successfully finished ,the kernel .deb will be available in /usr/src directory.

there are some optimization using gcc for saving time like giving makeopts=-j3 for a normal SMP processor.that you can google I suppose.
best of Luck.

regarding kernel compile.this is the link with pictures:
*www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian_p2

but you may not like to follow it as it is!

 

[gary4gar]

Thanks installed

now its little faster but firefox is slow, it takes long time to start up
around 12-13secs

 

[praka123]

^use swiftfox
*getswiftfox.com/deb.htm

I think u can install preload also.