Re: boot floppy
Also, If you do *not* want to run lilo on your system, you can make a boot
CDrom. I used them on several boxes and it's just about as fast as booting
off the hard drive. This requires a newer MB.
gl
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 21:04, ktb wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:22:48AM -0300, xgnu wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > This is my first messsage to the list.
> > I have installed debian potato 2.2 and I have a few questions.
> >
> > 1: I choose boot from a floppy disk, but the boot process is
> > very slow (until pass control to hd). Is there any way to
> > speed up the boot process?
>
> You will want to install a boot loader like lilo. Try running -
> liloconfig
> Take a look at -
> man lilo
> man lilo.conf
> man liloconfig
>
> > 2: The kernel version is 2.2.17. I want to compile 2.4.5, but
> > I have a tar.gz file, not the deb pkg and I had not installed
> > development tools. Which packages I need to compile the new
> > kernel?
>
> For instructions on how to upgrade to 2.4.x kennels -
> http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415
>
> You can use Adrian's packages at -
> http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
>
> > thanks, and of course, sorry for my english! (i'm argentinian).
>
> Your English is fine:)
> kent
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