It's a throwback... I allow it to use a ramdisk on initial startup... This
goes way back to me using slackware in '92... I just never changed...
Actually, I think this is the default installed by the installation program,
now that I think of it...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Howard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Kernel recompiles...
>
> Why do you use a RAM disk?
>
> Lee Howard
>
>
> At 08:12 AM 6/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I've seen this question alot, recently, so here's how _I_ recompile _my_
> >system...
> ....
> >mv /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
> >mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16.img 2.2.16-3
> ....
> >Now, edit /etc/lilo.conf (This is how mine looks - LINUX only)
> ....
> >initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16.img
> ....
>
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