Re: Kernel compilation questions and others
Bill Vinson wrote:
>
> First of all please let me thank all of you who responded to my newbie
> questions...I really appreciate all of the help and I hope I am not hogging
> the lists time...
>
> I have installed minicom, ppp, cpp, etc. according to the dependencies
> Debian told me about...
> The PPP manual and several others have told me I will need to compile my
> kernel to use PPP or the Ethernet card I had posted about earlier. What
> the heck do I need to do this? I have only downloaded cpp from the dev
> module sections. What else do I need? I don't think I have any source
> code on the machine as of yet...
> I thought I remembered having the option for a NE2000 compliant ethernet
> card and ppp dynamically loading library in the startup when I first
> installed Debian, but like a fool I didn't choose these since I didn't have
> anything at the time... Can this be done instead of recompiling the
> kernel? I posted earlier that I have a 100 MB drive and I was told this
> was not enought, but currently I don't have the cash flow for more (50 days
> and counting till I get married and have to pay for a honeymoon :-)...)
> Can I do this stuff with only 49 MB left, according to the 'df' command?
>
> PART 2
>
> Several people told me about the color-ls command and how to type 'eval
> DIRCOLORS' in the initialization file...Where is this file and what is it
> called?
>
> Once again thanks for y'all's help and for your UNBELIEVEABLE patience!
> Bill
It goes in a file in your home directory called .bash_profile. This
file (because of the . in front) does not appear when you type ls, but
ls -la will show it to you, if that helps in finding it. You can edit
it with vi or whatever you use.
Good Luck,
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