apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2 build-essential #make sure you have plenty of room on you drive #get the kernel from http://kernel.org wget “https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.11.4.tar.xz” -O linux.tar.xz tar -xJvf linux.tar.xz cd linux make clean && make mrproper cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config make menuconfig #choose “LOAD” and “.config” then exit and save #This will take a while make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers #this creates two .deb files in the current dir #install them