Sukrit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. How do i decide which modules to load at boot time, which file is > to be edited?
/etc/modules > (i am thinking that i'll compile support for lots of devices - > cd-writer, different network cards - as modules that way i won't > have to recompile kernel when i add those devices. So i don't want > all my modules to be loaded at boot time. Also, i don't want to > dynamically and automatically load/unload modules) ...I was going to suggest using the built-in module autoloading support, which works well for me, but I guess not. :-) > 3. i compiled the kernel, now do i need to get kernel-headers? What is > the function of kernel-headers? I'm not entirely clear. In unstable, there is a kernel-build-* package, which provides everything you need to build kernel modules against the kernel in question; the kernel-headers-* package alone frequently isn't enough. But if you compiled the kernel, then you already have kernel source, which means you already have a headers tree without doing anything special. > 4. Right now i am copying kernel bzImage into /boot renaming it, and > editing lilo. Also for modules i > #make modules > #make modules_install > > If i already have the same version of kernel running does old module > tree get over-written or not? Yes, it does overwrite the existing modules. > ps please don't suggest i use make-kpkg :) i want to understand the > process first before i choose automation. I'm going to go ahead and suggest kernel-package anyways. The fundamental steps are the same (configure, compile, install) except that you use Debian tools to install, which means you can later use Debian tools to uninstall. kernel-package also provides a much better interface if you're going to try to add in modules that don't come distributed with the kernel (OpenAFS, lm-sensors, ALSA, ...) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
