I know what you mean. The real fun part is when something goes wrong and
you have to figure out what it is and how to fix it. I've done that
serveral times. One time I had the kernel about where you're descibing and
I was going after that last 1%. Well, :) , When I rebooted after
"thinking" I had gotten that last bit I got a kernel panic and things went
south real fast from there. It took me about two hours to get it un-hosed
from there, but I got it. That's when I learned about how you can over-lay
an installation of Linux over top of the older one. As long as they're the
same version "usually" only the system files get over-written. It worked
quite nicely for me and saved my bacon!
I'm much more careful these days when I do anything with the kernel. I
make sure I back things up like the old kernel and it's support files and
what-nots. That makes installing the "old" kernel much less painless if
the need arises.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 182496
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks Mark, I took a shot at it and did fairly well, actually. I used the
> online documentation. My results were 99% perfect, I'd say. Gotta go back for
> that remaining 1%. I was impressed with the process enough that I thnk I'll
> stick with this and take it further. I used to say of that other OS,
> "##@?!! If I could only get into the guts of this I would...." Well, here
> it is. An Os where I can do that.
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> > Have you looked at the HOWTO's that are located in
> > "/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/index.html"
> >
> > There is a kernel HOWTO located there that pretty much explains how it's
> > done and what all you'll need to do it.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > I love my Linux Box...
> > REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
> > Registered Linux user # 182496
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, excalibur wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been using Linux Mandrake for about a month and a half and it's
> > > great, though I've much
> > > to learn of it. Does anyone know of a website with a good how-to on
> > > compiling the kernel or even a good book that would cover the topic? I'd
> > > greatly appreciate it.
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
>
>
