Ladies and Gentlemen!!
I have completed my first kernel compile ever!!!
And it went flawlessly......
Thank you very much Terrance for that bzImage tip. That did it for me.
And thank you lunaslide. You mentioned that one day I would be compiling kernels for
fun :-). Well, I guess that day has arrived!
1 quick question......
How can I see what and wether any changes in the kernel have taken effect? as in a
file noting what was removd and what was added to the kernel?
I hope all of you don't think I am a fool. But this is a big step for me. Every
single day I learn more and more about Linux, and I can clearly see that it is
definately the OS of the future!!
Now, I have noticed couple of things after the kernel recompile.......
1. It boots about 6-8 secs faster.
2. There are 42 processes running instead of 55.
3. The vmlinuz in the / (root) dir is smaller than the vmlinuz.old file.
I hope that these are good things and not bad.
Anyways, I am speeding towards making Linux my Only and Main OS......
However couple of more things to take care of and I will need all the help from other
users........
1. I still can't get ANY incarnation of ICQ to work.
2. I need to set up this machine as a Firewall/Masq box. Because when I had Win95 I
was running SyGate.
3. I need to get my printer working under Linux. I have figured out one
problem......my printer is a WINGUI based printer, and hence is not supported under
Linux. It's odd, because it's quite a high end printer. It's an Epson Stylus Pro.
I am currently looking for a good inkjet or laser printer.
4. I need to administer SAMBA because 1 user in my 2 users in my 4 computer network
use WIN95, and they will need to print documents.
A bit of questions now......
I currently have a P-233 MMX with 64 MB of RAM.
1. Can I run a firewall/masq/SAMBA (file and printer sharing) on this box without all
those services being a strain on the system's performance?
Note that Printing and file sharing will be done VERY sparsely, it is mainly going to
be a masq server with firewalling there to protect my poor little home network :-)
2. Can I run a FTP daemon, and have people upload and download win95 files without
them being corrupted when they reside on the ext2 fs? ( I have asked this question
before but I erased the reply by mistake, sorry)
That's pretty much it........
Thanks one and thanks all for the IMMENSE help that you have shared. It's people like
you that make me want to learn more about Linux. Add one more Linux lover to the
millions already!! :-)
Many thanks in advance!!
Zulfiqar Naushad.
Terrance L Eck wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
>
>
> I think the problem is you included too much in the kernel. Try
> make bzImage instead of make zImage. This should give you a compressed
> kernel called bzImage under .../boot which may be treated as a normal
> kernel.
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