Re: [newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel & Black Box
Blackbox is a gui interface just like KDE and gnome. The exception is that Blackbox is not weighted down with abunch of uneccesarry code. This make it a lean, mean, fast GUI. I run it with kde enabled so that I can run some of the important KDE stuff alongside it. Check out their Web Page at: blackbox.alug.org SA -Original Message- From: Jaguar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 5:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel & Black Box >I want to re-compile my Kernel on a default install of L-M 6.0, to make it >faster, and get rid of un-nessessary MOD's and stuff. I will use the GUI >Xconfig, but I would like to know what I should do B4 I start... ie: kernel >backup, bootdisk, or ???. and then the correct procedure after SAVEing and >then getting running again after the restart. (Unless this is ALL (read as >silly NEWBIE) covered in a HOWTO) >Also...what the heck is Black Box? >TIA >Jaguar > >PS: I have read alot of the HOWTO's but I am more confused now that when I >started...:( > > >Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel & Black Box
>>> "Jaguar" == Jaguar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jaguar> I want to re-compile my Kernel on a default install of L-M Jaguar> 6.0, to make it faster, and get rid of un-nessessary MOD's Jaguar> and stuff. I will use the GUI Xconfig, but I would like Jaguar> to know what I should do B4 I start... ie: kernel backup, Jaguar> bootdisk, or ???. and then the correct procedure after Several things to do, but make sure you rm the symlinks in /boot and /lib/modules, so as not to overwrite the old kernel and associated files. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 13 St Didacus or St Francis Xavier Cabrini "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
