Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-23 Thread Robert Voigt
On Monday 23 April 2001 12:28, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Perhaps you have mentioned it somewhere, but it may be worthy noting that > you can compile kernels on a fast machine for a slower machine (with the > correct config files), copy the .deb file and install the package on the > slower machine. Th

Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-23 Thread Robert Voigt
On Sunday 22 April 2001 11:26, Jesse Goerz wrote: > I wrote a basic document intended to help Debian newbies compile custom > kernels using kernel-package. I'd really appreciate any and all comments, > suggestions, additions, subtractions you may have. (constructive > welcomed, the rest accepted)

Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I must say, it is a very exhaustive document, but I think detailed enough for a newbie, BUT: everything you describe, is done as root. This is not needed, and certainly for newbies somewhat dangerous. I would do the following: As root: - install kernel source with apt - addgroup src (this giv

Re: [Newbiedoc-discuss] Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-22 Thread Jesse Goerz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 April 2001 08:13, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > Jesse > > In "Making sure you have everything you need," you wrote: > > "This should create a directory called kernel-source-2.2.19. Inside that > directory you should find another called Docu

Re: Tutorial for kernel compiling the Debian way, RFC

2001-04-22 Thread ktb
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:26:01AM -0400, Jesse Goerz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wrote a basic document intended to help Debian newbies compile custom > kernels using kernel-package. I'd really appreciate any and all comments, > suggestions, additions, subtra