"You cannot truly call yourself a man until you have compiled your own kernel"-wooky, in linux-mandrake newbie mailing list. I am obviously a master in the ancient art of kernel compiling. Since most people don't like reading long posts, here are my questions beforehand: 1-what options in kernel .config are necessary to enable reading of fat/vfat partitions? And to Aurora function properly? 2-is 6-7 min a normal time for compiling the bzImage(for a 800Mhz sys)? 3-what are the System Map and config symlinnks in /boot used for? Now read on. I would like to thank everyone in this list, specially Civ, Shidhar and etharp- since now I have a working winmodem in linux. Like etharp so beuatifully called it, this fine piece of computing equipment even runs quicker than in window$. Now I have a complete Linux system running. I had to compile another kernel for it to work, for it seems that the patches in .mkd kernel prevent it from working. My first kernel just didn't boot, or so i thought. Then I figured it out it had something to do with Aurora since I could see the IDE light flashing in my box. It took me some time to change the vga to normal in lilo.conf., but then it went ok. Now it wouldn't read my window$ partitions, even though I am sure I enabled then in the config. After compiling half a dozen kernels with no luck, I decided to take on another strategy: I loaded up mandrake 2.4.3 config and proceeded to take off all the options that I was sure I wouldn't need. Now it worked (almost) fine, though it took some time to compile the modules. I said almost cause the aterm program- a terminal for AfterStep and windowMaker refuses to run saying it cant open a virtual pty. Again, thanks to everyone who has somehow helped me and others to get their Linux boxes running. Jeferson Lopes Zacco aka Wooky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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