{apologies for the possible repost, my replies aren't showing up...WTF?}
Tim Moore wrote:
>
> Bad news is that you can't change any kernel paramteres on install, and
> as you observed nothing gets changed without sources.
>
> Nothing says the sources have to be installed, configured or built on
> the same machine the kernel will run on. In fact, you don't have to
> have root privs to build a kernel, just install it.
>
> The quick and dirty way is to install the sources, build a kernel, tar
> up the build tree and ftp it away somewhere else, then delete the
> sources. This is clean and works for machines that don't change kernels
> much.
>
> Besides the kernel HOWTO there is also good info in the README file in
> standard /usr/src/linux which is where I learned.
>
> Let me know if you get stuck with something.
Jacob Killian wrote:
>
> Thanks Tim!
>
> I was afraid that I would need to recompile. I didn't include the source code
> on this build, so I guess I'll need to re-install.
>
> Do you know how I can specify this in the install process? I REALLY don't want
> to have the source included on this build (it's going to be an exposed machine,
> so I want to lock it down as much as I know how).
>
> Also, does anyone know how to load compaq drivers during expert mode
> setup? The compaq smart-start utility puts these onto a system partition prior
> to OS installation, but I'm not sure how to load them. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Jacob Killian
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> > > I've got a system with 1 gig of memory (to go with the 1 gig processor).
> > >
> > > I've edited lilo.conf to include "append="mem=1024M"", run "lilo -v", and
> > > rebooted.
> > >
> > > When I run "free -m", the system only shows 895(? 885 ?) meg, and not 1024.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong? Or, is there a limitation in the kernel?
> >
> > Select 2GB memory in kernel config.
> >
> > ...
> > ## CONFIG_1GB is not set
> > CONFIG_2GB=y
> > ...
> >
> > Mar 14 12:48:40 asus kernel: Memory: 257584k/262144k available (1112k
> > kernel code, 424k reserved, 2964k data, 60k init)
> >
> > # free -m
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 251 130 120 15 97
> > 6
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 26 225
> > Swap: 336 0 336
> > # free -t
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 257644 133948 123696 15408 100152
> > 6744
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 27052 230592
> > Swap: 344812 0 344812
> > Total: 602456 133948 468508
> >
> > rgds,
> > tim.
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