strange question

[Shaun Oliver]

haveing said that however, it's still daunting for those who've never
configured and compiled a kernel before.
thing is though, you're right. once you've done it and you know enough
about your own system and what to configure for, it gets much easier as
you go on.
remember this though, it's all tryal and error.
more often than not you'll get more errors than you'd like but it's worth
the time u spend swearing and thinking about things. <grin>



-- 


Shaun

I never made a mistake in my life.
I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Martin G. McCormick wrote:

> 	I second the advice to not fear configuring kernels.  The
> main thing is to first do no harm.  If you have a working kernel,
> by all means, save it.  I am sure we have all had new kernels
> that just sat there doing nothing on boot because it either
> turned out that that kernel wasn't suitable for our system or
> that we made a terrible mistake in configuring it.
> 
> 	I once configured a new kernel for a Dell system that
> uses a SCSI bus for the hard drive.  I forgot about that because
> I also use a Dell system which is very similar to this one only
> with an IDE drive.  The result was a paper weight of a computer
> until I could boot an old kernel and get the system back to life
> again.
> 
> 	The biggest problem you will have in setting up kernels,
> at times, is finding out enough about your hardware to answer the
> questions properly.  If you do that, you've taken care of the
> worst part of the whole thing.
> 
> 	Right now, I have one kernel that boots perfectly on a
> Dell system, but which doesn't work quite right with sound, and
> another kernel which works better with sound, but which is
> obsolete.
> 
> 	That kind of thing is what you will often-times run in to
> in the kernel game.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group
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