On Sunday 01 July 2001 09:50 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2001 22:15, s wrote: > > I was wondering if someone could tell me how to load 8.0 from the > > cds using 2.2.19 kernel. > > On install you go to expert mode, then at individual package > selection you click the two cyan arrows at the bottom of the panel > which say "toggle between tree and flat list" to bring up an alpha > list. You then scroll fown to the k's and select either or both of > kernel22-2.2.19-10mdk and kernel-linus-2.4.3-2mdk. This gets them > installed. > > Now at bootloader time, you click on Modify and write doen the > informations from one of the linux boots. Then you exit that modify > and click Add. You enter all the same information except labels and > boot image. You choose a different boot image. You will find > vmlinuz-2.2.19-10mdk and/or vmlinuz-2.4.3-2mdklinus in the drop down > list. make the boots and label them appropriately. > > If you have already installed, then use the software manager to > install the kernel(s) you want. Following that, use Control Center > to first list an existing linux boot then to make new one(s) with > label and boot image changed. > > This is the basic. Later if you want to be really fancy with the > multiple personalities you have given your computer, it is possible > to use mkinitrd for each of them separately. > > You might want to try kernel-linus 2.4 before 2.2.19 to see the > performance. As you know we have deliberately slowed our stock 2.4 > on some systems to protect from a nasty hardware bug that was first > announced just days before our release. I think kernel-linus does > not have this protective feature. > > Civileme Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. :-) -s
