On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, lin q wrote: > Thanks, my PC is a Pentium Celeron 266MHz eMachine. I want to use old kernel > because this machine is sort of old, (or is it as you see?), I must turn off > DMA in order to use CDROM. > > I want to minimize the hassel as Linux build is new to me, a more stable and > bug-less version is the key point. If 2.6 kernel is actually good, then > among LFS 5.0, 5.1.1 and 6.0, which is the best fit for me? >
I imagine 5.1.1 will build more quickly than 6.0 (my experience is that compiling with gcc-3.4 takes a lot longer than with 3.3, although the binaries might run marginally faster). I really can't see any advantage to using the 5.0 book, beyond perhaps saving a few minutes in the compilation. Yes, I agree 266MHz processors are old, but the kernel should know all about their quirks and foibles. I've not heard of people having to turn off dma to use the cdrom, at least not on sane hardware. When you've built a 5.1.1 system, you could upgrade the kernel to 2.6 if you wanted, just remember to install module-init-tools at that point (with `make moveold' to preserve the 2.4 modutils versions of the programs). Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
