Paul wrote:
>
> > to boot in a kernel during installation from cd-rom, someone said here
> > that i had to press F1 when the splash-screen appeared. Which
> > splash-screen is meant?
>
> Hi Pieter,
> The splash screen is the initial screen you seen when booting from the cd. Where you
>can
> hit ENTER to install/upgrade or F1 for other options.
>
this doesn't work (see below)
> > -scanning scsi etc.
> > -select the media that contains the packages
> > -initializing cdrom
> > -select installationlanguage etc (all in the GUI-installation)
after the language selection there is the question if i want to install
(automated/customized/expert) or upgrade... F1 gives me only the
explanation about the possibilities, in a full screen instead of in the
small frame on the bottom.
>
> I doubt that you can create a kernel without installation. The kernel generation
>depends
> on all the sources and also the gcc compiler being installed.
they are installed. The problem is that i cannot boot the system (unable
to mount root fs), i think it is because probably the kernel uses a scsi
module to access the scsi devices, but therefor it needs to have the
root fs mounted, but this is on a scsi dev.
