Tim Binsted wrote:
> I am building a kernel in Debian (both etch and lenny). Building the kernel
> goes fine, but I can't find the tools mkinitrd etc.
>
> Have added the line:
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch (or lenny) module-init-tools
> initrd-tools procps to sources.list
>
> However I cannot get hold of these tools. Have also tried with the standard
> installation (and have tried search etc.)

apt-cache show initramfs-tools

How are you building the kernel? Are you using kernel-package/make-kpkg?