On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, melchior wrote:

> i am still not sure mhich kernel i should use to begin with. The default 
> appears to support all my hardware so there is no drastic need for particular 
> kernel. i see  benh has an ibook optimised kernel...... should i be using 
> that? i have the original ibook2 and want a kernel that will read hfsplus, 
> per the module at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus. 
> 

None of the provided kernels have that module.  You'll have to roll your
own unless ppckernels.org or somewhere has one with it built in.

> as for actually going about compiling the kernel, 'make menuconfig' says i 
> need ncurses. 'urpmi ncurses' says it is already installed. 
> 

urpmi ncurses-devel

> i presume urpmi is the best mandrake can offer, but i can't seem to get it to 
> access media other than the cd's. could someone give me an example with a 
> mirror? 
> trying to compile software, i am told cpp is not sane... 
> 

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon

Thank Olivier Thauvin for this nice tool.


Stew Benedict

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