Re: two questions

[Lars Jensen <jensen@scs.unr.edu>]

Make a boot floppy:

As root, issue 

mkboot /vmlinuz


(see also man page for mkboot). this will make a faster booting floppy.

Lars

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo       INGDESI wrote:

> Hi, this is my first message to the list.
> I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian.
> The questions are:
> 
> - when the installer ask me where to put the boot loader,
> I choose floppy, because the computer is shared with other OS.
> It works ok, but is very very slow the boot process until it pass
> control to hard disk. How can I speed up the floppy boot process?
> 
> - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have
> the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to
> compile the kernel. Where can I find the list of packages needed to
> do it?
> 
> thanks, and sorry for my english.
> 
> --yapedu/xgnu
> 
> 
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