Make a boot floppy: As root, issue
mkboot /vmlinuz (see also man page for mkboot). this will make a faster booting floppy. Lars On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi, this is my first message to the list. > I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian. > The questions are: > > - when the installer ask me where to put the boot loader, > I choose floppy, because the computer is shared with other OS. > It works ok, but is very very slow the boot process until it pass > control to hard disk. How can I speed up the floppy boot process? > > - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have > the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to > compile the kernel. Where can I find the list of packages needed to > do it? > > thanks, and sorry for my english. > > --yapedu/xgnu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
