Re: compiling the kernel

[Cam Ellison <camellison@dccnet.com>]

Thomas Delany wrote:
> 
> Re 3)  I don't have a lot of experience with this as I've usually just let
> the Debian install procedure set up the hard disk for me.  As far as
> partitioning the drive goes, Linux has an fdisk utility that is sort of the
> counterpart of the MS-DOS / Windows fdisk utility (check the man page /
> documentation).
> 
I suggest you sue cfdisk, rather than fdisk.  It's more sophisticated,
and in my (admittedly limited) experience less likely to lead you
astray.

> I believe that the Linux mkfs utility is the closest equivalent to the
> MS-DOS / Windows format command.  Again, check the man page / documentation
> for its options.  Anybody else out there feel free to correct me if I'm way
> off base here, as I'm not exactly an old hand at Linux.
> 
Yes.  If you are doing an installation for the first time, the install
procedure takes care of all this for you.

> I am not at all qualified to answer 4) for you.  Sorry.
> 
My own prejudice is to put it all into the kernel.  I don't think that
it reduces functionality that much.  If you have something that you
don't use very often, it may make more sense to modularize it.  I use
pretty much everything nearly every day. so have put it all in the
kernel.


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