[Snipping most] On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 06:45 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > > I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it > would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the > hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what > I won't ever have. But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done, > so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.
Have you ever written any code before, or even compiled anything? Just trying to establish a baseline of what you might know. > Any downloads required are going to have to be done on my OS/2 machine > and burned to a CD. > > One of my main concerns is that I don't want to have to go through a > whole stack of CD becuasue I didn't get everything I need and have to > go back. Don't suppose you have a zip drive or keychain usb drive sitting around? > I currently have the default "vanilla" installation in the machine I > plan to put Debian on (It's eventual home will be inside a Mame cab). Mame cab? What is this beast? > I need to know what is part of the kernel source package? IDE hard > drive support? Floppy support (even thought I don't have one > installed I might in the future)? USB? Mouse, Serial and Paralell > ports? All of the above will be part of the kernel source package. The only thing that wouldn't be part of this package would be third-party drivers that you could only get from the manufacturer. Or bleeding-edge patches and drivers that haven't made it into the kernel package yet. > I'm also wondering if I will be able to boot into the old kernel if > teh new one doesn't work? Yes, if you set lilo up properly. It may barf up messages about mismatched System.map files and whatnot, though. > These are all my preliminary questions. I'm sure the answers will > result in more questions so please be patient. I still think that the $15 NIC would be the easiest. Someone else's earlier suggestion about using Knoppix was also a pretty good one -- Knoppix's ability to detect stuff is nothing short of amazing to me. It even knew the exact model of the wireless USB mini-mouse I was using on a laptop. I bet you could boot up the latest version of Knoppix, have network support without having to manually configure a single thing, mount your hard drive, d/l the new kernel and compile it, etc, then afterwards boot off the hard drive. You would have to learn the chroot command and a couple of other arcane things, but you wouldn't have to burn through a bunch of CD-Rs. And did I mention Knoppix is sweet? -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
