Andrei Popescu wrote:
The DVD is an older version with sarge, then did a 'dist-upgrade' to get to etch.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
What do you mean by that? The config for Debian standard kernels can be found in /bootI was looking in the linux source scripts directory for the extract program. Found the .config copy in boot...
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".
two reasons:1) to make the kernel smaller by removing extraneous modules rather than trying to build linux-from-scratch. Would like to fit it all on a 2GB stick including X-windows and run with out any "moving parts", and
2) will be adding the real-time modules from RTAI and patches and need to recompile
Started with sarge and the 2.6.8 binary and then downloaded 2.6.17.5 from kernel.org which will be patched for the ADEOS code and RTAI modules.
I'll try using the config file in /boot. Actually, I should do a fresh install using etch and 2.6.18 and source provided.
Will see if 2.6.18 will recompile and run first, and then try the 2.6.17 version with patches. Then post the error messages if the new system won't boot...
Thank you for the reply and help John W.