Compile kernel on Debian sarge (from source)

Configure kernel:

apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.11.7.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-2.6.11.7.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.11.7/
make menuconfig

Build package:

make-kpkg clean
fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image

Install kernel:

cd ../
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.11.7_custom.1.0_i386.deb