On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:52:38AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > 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.
FWIW, I compiled my first custom kernel very recently, following the Very Verbose Guide... http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949 ...and found the process remarkably painless. And I'm nobody's hacker. I once took a one-term class in C programming, but never wrote anything more sophisticated than a 25-line program to sort numbers into descending order. <SNIP> > ... 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? I'll second this. It's what got me out of the exact same situation, just last week. The reason I compiled my first kernel, as mentioned above, was to make my NIC work. And I didn't even need to learn chroot to do it. (Boot knoppix, mount HD read-write, D/L kernel sources, reboot into Debian, compile new kernel, boot new kernel.) No doubt a $15 NIC would have been easier, but I'm a starving student and had already spent $25CDN (which I could ill afford) on the first one. Cheers! -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | To hell with Saddam < > Please do not | and may he quickly be joined by Bush. < > reply off-list. | - Salam Pax < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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