John Goerzen wrote on 2004-10-30 18:10: Hi John,
You can try my DFS CD from http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs.
Thank you.
I am not being much a Linux person, yet --I am just a tad above newby level :-)
I checked your site and DFS files are all non-amd64, yet there is an amd64 image in there
http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/vmlinuz-2.6.6-amd64
If I placed it in the /boot of the machine (under knoppix), would it work with these in grub
<example> title John Goerzen's Debian GNU/Linux, kernel root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /???????.img savedefault boot </example>
In which case, do I just delete the 'initrd' line?
As a general rule, I never use the initrd kernels for just some of these reasons. It's too error-prone. Once you have your machine installed, you can build your own kernel, and then the whole need for the initrd kernels goes away. (Yes, they're useful if you have to have a "generic" kernel, but as far as I'm concerned, that's where the usefulness ends.)
I suppose I will have to do just that one day. ATM, I am just not brave enough to compile my own kernels :->
Cheers, Ray