Inconsistent naming of ethernet interfaces...

2005-02-05 Thread salman h
I have a computer system with 3 ethernet ports, one on the motherboard and two on a dual NIC PCI card. Typically, the onboard port is aliased as eth0 while the ports on the NIC get assigned eth1 and eth2. Lately, eth1 gets assigned to the onboard port, which is very annoying since that messes up

Large ramdisks, kernel memory space issue

2005-04-15 Thread salman h
Hi All, I'm using a slightly modified Debian kernel along with PXELinux to boot a machine over the network. My kernel's memory footprint is quite large (400 megs) because it pre-allocates memory for some processes (in the interest of speedier process execution). My ramdisk size is about 500 me

Re: Large ramdisks, kernel memory space issue

2005-04-26 Thread salman h
--- Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > salman h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm using a slightly modified Debian kernel along > with > > PXELinux to boot a machine over the network. > > > > My ker

Re: Large ramdisks, kernel memory space issue

2005-04-26 Thread salman h
--- "J.A. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, salman h wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm using a slightly modified Debian kernel along > with > > PXELinux to boot a machine over the network. > > > > My