Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:52:38 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
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>On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 06:45 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
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>> I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it
>> would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
>> hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what
>> I won't ever have. But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done,
>> so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.
>
>Have you ever written any code before, or even compiled anything? Just
>trying to establish a baseline of what you might know.
Not much. I did some C programming in OS/2 about 10 years ago. Just
some little utilities. An occasional C program for CGI. Some
Perl. A shitload of Rexx and macros in E (the macro language for the
OS/2 text editor). I'm going to miss OS/2. The WPS is the best GUI
ever.
>> Any downloads required are going to have to be done on my OS/2 machine
>> and burned to a CD.
>>
>> One of my main concerns is that I don't want to have to go through a
>> whole stack of CD becuasue I didn't get everything I need and have to
>> go back.
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>Don't suppose you have a zip drive or keychain usb drive sitting around?
No and one of the reasons I'm finally leaving OS/2 is that the USB
support sucks.
>> I currently have the default "vanilla" installation in the machine I
>> plan to put Debian on (It's eventual home will be inside a Mame cab).
>
>Mame cab? What is this beast?
An arcade style video game cabinet. Mame is an emublator of old
arcade games.
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm
http://www.mame.net/
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>I still think that the $15 NIC would be the easiest.
Car has no accelerator cable.
Someone else's
>earlier suggestion about using Knoppix was also a pretty good one --
>Knoppix's ability to detect stuff is nothing short of amazing to me. It
>even knew the exact model of the wireless USB mini-mouse I was using on
>a laptop. I bet you could boot up the latest version of Knoppix, have
>network support without having to manually configure a single thing,
>mount your hard drive, d/l the new kernel and compile it, etc, then
>afterwards boot off the hard drive. You would have to learn the chroot
>command and a couple of other arcane things, but you wouldn't have to
>burn through a bunch of CD-Rs. And did I mention Knoppix is sweet?
I'll burn a Knoppix CD tomorrow and give it a shot.
Mark Healey
deblist@healeyonline.com
Giving debian a chance.
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