In order for the distros to compete in the modern days, they have to introduce newer and smoother ways of doing things, including kernel development. They will have older tools for backward compatibility or else you can get them from their respective sites. If you are used to the RedHat way of doing things than you should use Fedora.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Himanshu Chauhan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I know is an all-time asked question. But I am asking this not because I > am clueless but because I am fed up of "the ubuntu way". I am done with > its UID way of getting to partitions. I want to use good old days > root=/dev/sda1. Can somebody tell me how to do this? I no longer want > crazy make-kpkg stuff. I remember when I used to use RedHat distro Try to read some of the docs because its not suppose to be complex for newbies. > > (before fedora was launched, RedHat 9), things were simpler, I guess. I > was able to compile and deploy the kernel even though those were > *starting* days for me for linux. > > Regards > - Himanshu > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- Shaz
