Hello Debian-user, 20 minutes ago, I did a re-compile of the kernel and modules. I'm new to debian, have played with Linux for more than half a year. Somebody had just talking about kernel compiling here in this list: Is this easy enough?
O.K., my experience: Following the instructions of README in /usr/src/linux, compiling the kernel is easy. Even with make config, since there're lot of '?'s, and my box, except the sound card, is very normal, config is not difficult. And make dep; make; cp .. /boot/.., all are very straight. Documented very well. But then modules. Following modules.txt, make modules, make modules_install are ok.. Then reboot: a lot of "unresolved ....."! In fact, I've experienced this, so I went to /lib/modules/... did a depmod -a. My question is why this is not documented in the modules.txt? It only says depmod -a is need in init script. But seems this is not the case in my box.(?) I need do this right after modules installed. Then reboot: "linear and char-major-10 and net-pf-5 trouble"! I must say I'm an accomplished guesser 8), I went to /etc, do a ls, guess on the file names, bingo! vi modules, comment linear; vi conf.modules Guess again (with help of comments), uncomment net-pf-5, add a char-major-10 off. I must say I do not understand even one bit of this file. But my guess works! Hehe, My question again: why not documented? I know this surely's been documented somewhere since it's very important. But I'd like to see it in the modules.txt or modules.Debian.txt 'cause that's why I will look for the answer when compiling kernel and modules and encountering problems. I do not think I should read all of the man pages and info pages before I could say that I do not want that 700k kernel and want a 300k one. At least a link, like in the README says "when do modules, read modules.txt", right? It's clear, hence easy, but not enough. Best regards, Zhaoway mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
