On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:52:38 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >[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.
Not much. I did some C programming in OS/2 about 10 years ago. Just some little utilities. An occasional C program for CGI. Some Perl. A shitload of Rexx and macros in E (the macro language for the OS/2 text editor). I'm going to miss OS/2. The WPS is the best GUI ever. >> 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? No and one of the reasons I'm finally leaving OS/2 is that the USB support sucks. >> 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? An arcade style video game cabinet. Mame is an emublator of old arcade games. http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm http://www.mame.net/ > >I still think that the $15 NIC would be the easiest. Car has no accelerator cable. 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? I'll burn a Knoppix CD tomorrow and give it a shot. Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving debian a chance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
