Re: > 64Meg RAM question
>
> Will stepping up to potato (I assume that's what you mean by a 2.2
> based kernel) necessarily fix the memory problem? Also,
> how big a headache am I in for in compiling the kernel and pcmcia
> services? I'm a bit of a novice at this Linux system administration
> stuff, although I've been a Unix user for years.
>
you do not need to update to potato just yet. slink is fully happy with a 2.2
kernel. Install the kernel-package and read its docs, pcmcia and kernel are
quite easy with it.
The steps boil down to:
place kernel source in /usr/src (or install the kernel-source-<foo> package)
grab pcmcia-source
untar the sources
cd linux (or make the symlink)
make menuconfig
make-kpkg --revision=`uname -n`.1 kernel_image
make-kpkg modules_image
cd ..
dpkg -i kernel-image-<foo>.deb pcmcia-modules-<foo>.deb
reboot
Read the docs before doing this yourself.
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