bruce wrote: > i'm looking to build the kernel from source - both regular, and in debug. > any pointers, sites, or instructions would be helpful... Is there such a thing as a "debug" kernel? You can get the "vanilla" kernel sources from http://www.kernel.org . On de-tarring this, you say "make xconfig" and you are offered a million options, some of which give greater debug output. This creates a file .config, and then you say "make", "make modules_install", "make install". Your distribution probably supplies a model config file to start from. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland