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