On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, zentara wrote:
>
> Steve Pauly wrote:
>
> > With all the traffic on the list about kernels, I thought this might be
> > interesting.
> > He states that the popular dists ship adequate kernels and the desire to
> > recompile for speed is useless. Since modern pc's ship with 32MB or more
> > Ram, modularizing is meaningless, he adds.
> >
>
> Well modularization is now neccessary for most systems.
Agreed. Please read the article to see why most people will not need to
recompile.
> Have you noticed how many people complain about the
> error message "kernel too big" ?
I thought the issue about big kernels mainly revolved around "make zImage"
vs. "make bzImage". The times zImage didn't work, bzImage cured it, in my
experience.
>
> I think Hubert has said that the kernel must be able to boot
> within the old 640k dos limit.
I looked for Hubert's comment on the archive but could not find it. Could
someone clarify this "old 640k dos limit" issue? The kernel howto was not
enlightening about it.
Nevertheless, I will compile a humongus(sp) monolithic kernel and see if
it installs.
In any event, compiling kernels has been highly instructional and
satisfying.
On another note, anyone got kscd to interact with cddb? I could not, so I
installed a cli cd player called cdcd. It worked perfectly, querying cddb
and displaying the artist and titles.
SuSE kicks major linux butt!
Happy compiling,
Steve.
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