You Da MAAAAAnnn!!!!!!! On Sunday 19 August 2001 14:38, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > "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] ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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