Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help
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On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 06:45 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
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> I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it
> would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
> hardware I have (or think I might add in the future) and none for what
> I won't ever have. But, this is hacker level stuff I've never done,
> so I'm going to need a whole-lotta help.
Have you ever written any code before, or even compiled anything? Just
trying to establish a baseline of what you might know.
> Any downloads required are going to have to be done on my OS/2 machine
> and burned to a CD.
>
> One of my main concerns is that I don't want to have to go through a
> whole stack of CD becuasue I didn't get everything I need and have to
> go back.
Don't suppose you have a zip drive or keychain usb drive sitting around?
> I currently have the default "vanilla" installation in the machine I
> plan to put Debian on (It's eventual home will be inside a Mame cab).
Mame cab? What is this beast?
> I need to know what is part of the kernel source package? IDE hard
> drive support? Floppy support (even thought I don't have one
> installed I might in the future)? USB? Mouse, Serial and Paralell
> ports?
All of the above will be part of the kernel source package. The only
thing that wouldn't be part of this package would be third-party drivers
that you could only get from the manufacturer. Or bleeding-edge patches
and drivers that haven't made it into the kernel package yet.
> I'm also wondering if I will be able to boot into the old kernel if
> teh new one doesn't work?
Yes, if you set lilo up properly. It may barf up messages about
mismatched System.map files and whatnot, though.
> These are all my preliminary questions. I'm sure the answers will
> result in more questions so please be patient.
I still think that the $15 NIC would be the easiest. Someone else's
earlier suggestion about using Knoppix was also a pretty good one --
Knoppix's ability to detect stuff is nothing short of amazing to me. It
even knew the exact model of the wireless USB mini-mouse I was using on
a laptop. I bet you could boot up the latest version of Knoppix, have
network support without having to manually configure a single thing,
mount your hard drive, d/l the new kernel and compile it, etc, then
afterwards boot off the hard drive. You would have to learn the chroot
command and a couple of other arcane things, but you wouldn't have to
burn through a bunch of CD-Rs. And did I mention Knoppix is sweet?
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monique
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