On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:53:48AM -0700, John Wojnaroski wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to run Debian off of a USB memory stick (4GB)... working with etch. > > Did an install from a DVD and the machine boots just fine. > > At this point, just a basic linux machine but have room for the X windows > package. The linux version is 2.6.8. Are you sure this is etch? sarge has kernel 2.6.8, etch has 2.6.18 > Tried to extract the .config from the binary, but does not appear it > was compiled with that option. What do you mean by that? The config for Debian standard kernels can be found in /boot [snip menu.lst and fstab] > Again, the installed binary works just fine, the version compiled from > source bombs. Best guess something is wrong/missing in the new > kernel, but can't find it for the life of me.... Why do you want to recompile the kernel? And what error messages do you get when it "bombs". Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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