Dear Debianers, I am about to try my first kernel compilation after a successful installation of Debian 2.0. I have a couple of questions, the former not related to the kernel itself.
1) While selecting/installing isdnutils, I was prompted to enter the name of whatever (I did not know what that was) and the message ended with (ippp0 ippp1 ippp2 ...): I typed ippp0. Afterwards, I got the message that /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 is not yet configured. I thought this was all right since I haven't bought an ISDN card yet and some configuration must be done by hand (as for gpm, I think), by editing a file. However, at reboot I also see a new message saying INIT: /etc/inittab[74]: id field too long (max 4 characters). Is this a problem with that name ipppd.ippp0 or something else? 2) I'll have to choose kernel compilation options: I am working on an IBM Thinkpad which will be connected to the rest of the world only via an ethernet PCMCIA card and an ISDN card, no printer. Do I need ppa (i.e., something I think is related with the parallel port)? The boot message about ppa currently says: SPP present, EPP not supported, probing 03bc, 0378, 0278 ... 3) Presently, I also get the message: RAMDISK driver: 16 ramdisks of 4096k size. I do not know what a ramdisk is (although I can imagine it): do I need any of them, is that a compilation option? I have a 2.1 GB HD, 40 MB ram (probably 64 in the future), and a 40MB Swap partition (just in case this is relevant to the ramdisk choice). 4) At boot time, I also get the message Unable to load NLS charset cp437 (nls_cp437): again, I do not know what that is, but the file is on the disk, together with several other ones with analogous names. 5) Finally, kernel-package allegedly makes things easy. If I understand correctly, I am supposed to rename the directory /etc/modules/2.0.34 to something else since that gets overwritten. Is all the rest automatic? Where does the new image "go", so that I can correctly point to it in the new lilo.conf? A sample lilo.conf with the call to the original kernel and to a custom-made one would be helpful. I do not see any "fakeroot" on the disk: is the command in the documentation correct? It ends in kernel-image: do I have to type "kernel-image" or a fantasy name for the image to be created? THis is not clear from the README file. Of course, I am going to finish reading the documentation in the meantime, but any clarification is well accepted. Thank you. Remo ________________________________________________________ | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | |____________________________|___________________________| | badii "at" psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | |____________________________|___________________________|
