I've not had a chance to mess about with Linux since Sunday - friend
brought a sick laptop over last night and it took the best part of 3 hours
to get it singing again... :( Fear not - as soon as I've got a full
walkthrough for setting up the fat partitions, I'll write it up and post it
on here and up on the web somewhere.....
You'll probably be better off with getting the source for the kernel - at
least then you can tune it to your machine - switch SMP on, turn Appletalk
support off, etc. etc.
Grab the binaries and I'll talk you through a full compile and install....
Which version of the kernel did you get by the way.... Be warned that the
2.3.* binaries are still in development and may be unstable - when you're
learning you might find youself spending 3 days trying to fix a config
problem only to find the kernel is broken and you'll NEVER get it to work
without getting you compiler out! :)
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Adam Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 22/02/2000 23:45:24
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Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I upgrade the kernel?
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Did you download the source code for the latest kernel or the
compiled
> kernel itself?
I downloaded the binaries in rpm format from the mandrake 6.1 upgrade
directory.
BTW, have you figured out how to enable r/w access to FAT partitions yet?
Nothing I've done has worked for me. You'd think that this wouldn't be so
difficult, eh? :)
Adam
