Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.11.17 18:22, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to > > > > include the init

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-17 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:39:04 -0600 Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to > > > include the initrd option when compiling the kernel

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-15 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to include > > the > > initrd option when compiling the kernel with make-kpkg. > > I'm curious; why do you recommend initrd? I built plenty

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-11 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600 Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to include the > initrd option when compiling the kernel with make-kpkg. I'm curious; why do you recommend initrd? I built plenty of kernels using ke

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.08 20:58, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > > I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I > > built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny > > distro that I use and my only real reason for building m

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > Hey, > > I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I > built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny > distro that I use and my only real reason for building my own kernel is > more for educational purposes than