Re: Slink kernel compilation - SUCCESS!
> On Jan 14, Robert Parnell scrawled :
> I've successfully built my first kernel on Debian
> Alpha! :) Editing the top-level Makefile was all that
> was required...
>
good to hear! congrats.
> 1. Upon install (after building the BSD disklabel and
> rebooting), will the default kernel recognize the
> slices after partitioning?
>
yes.
> 2. I'm more familiar with BSD disk partitioning than
> the DOS disklabels, but I'm not quite so sure how the
> BSD slices correlate to the Linux slices. Is
> /dev/sda1 = a, /dev/sda2 = b, /dev/sda3 = d, etc.? Is
> it advisable to put swap on slice b (I normally do
> this with DU / NetBSD). The SRM HOW-TO isn't quite so
> clear on this...
>
yes to this one too.
you *can* put your partitions wherever you like, however, conforming to the
BSD/DU styles is probably easier and means that if required DU can look at the
disks and not barf.
later,
--
Jean-Paul Blaquiere
japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
gotta www.wibble.org again
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