this was for my own testing purposes , I also want to program a GTK installer for it.. as well :), nice and appealing too.. but powerful.. and have it configure this all in runlevel 3, I had a question about.. for after I made it cd into /usr/src and then .. tar the linux source, isn't there a way you can have it tar the file.. without placing a name there, or kernel that others might not have.. so it could just tar the file :) and same idea I was going to do with ln -s as well thanks btw, for the assistance #!/bin/sh # apt-get update apt-get install binutils # Install Kernel Source apt-get install linux-source-$(echo $(uname -r) | cut -d'-' -f1) cd /usr/src tar -jxvf linux-source-(uname -r) ln -s linux-source-(uname -r) linux # Install Kernel Headers apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)