Editing Kernel Manual Build (section)

== Building the Debian Package ==

Use ''make bindeb-pkg'' target to build the kernel. the {{{-j`nproc`}}} argument sets the build to use as many cpu's as you have.
 {{{nice make -j`nproc` bindeb-pkg}}}

This will take quite some time and it's worth noting that it doesn't necessarily have to be done on the target machine (or even the target architecture, search in your engine of choice for kernel cross-compiling if you want to set it up). Choosing your most powerful machine may reduce the time of this operation from many hours to under 1. 

It's also worth noting that if you're using not much of a deviation from the default configuration that ships with debian, you'll need upwards of about 7GB or so of space to do this operation. 

When complete, a number of files get created in the parent directory. Here's the important and perhaps confusing ones:

 * linux-image-VERSION_ARCH.deb
 * linux-image-VERSION-dbg_VERSION_ARCH.deb

The first one will replace your current default menulist item in grub upon installation.  This means that if you install it then next time you reboot, you'll boot into that kernel.

The second are debug symbols for the first. This is useful if say, you want to do kernel debugging.  It's worth noting that when extracted the debug symbols are about 5GB.