make-kpkg is pretty neat, though... so far. :-)
update! everything works.... sound card, raid, reiserfs...
my raid 1 array is syncing now:
papag:/usr/home/bradfitz# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 hdd1[1] hdb1[0]
60026752 blocks [2/2] [UU]
[>....................] resync = 1.5% (939644/60026752) finish=443.5min speed=2219K/sec
unused devices:
# apt-get install reiserfsprogs
# mkreiserfs /dev/md0
# mkdir /raid
# mount -treiserfs /dev/md0 /raid
# cd /raid && touch doot && ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 7 19:12 doot
hooray!