Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Raul A. Gallegos]

If you can find the config file the sus kernel uses you can patch the
kernel with speakup and use makoldconfig to use your existing sus kernel
options.  The only thing the config script would stop for is to ask about
speakup and what you would end up with is a kernel that works in sus as
well as having speakup in it.
I suggest downloading the checkout script to get the latest cvs patch the
put it in /usr/src/linux and typing ./checkout.  Now you willhave speakup
source patched into the kernel.  When you have the kernel source type:

make mrproper

then copy your old config file to /usr/src/linux/.config

now type

make oldconfig

Now all the sus specific kernel options will be taken from the existing
config file and the config script will pause to ask you if you want
speakup.  say yes and y for any synth you want.  once this is done type

make dep
make bzImage  * note the acpital I in bzImage **

Write if you need more help on this.  Compiling a kernel the first time
can be intimidating but once you have done it over and over again you get
used to it.

hth.

--- Raul A. Gallegos mailto:raul at asmodean.net http://www.asmodean.net
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Gordon Smith wrote:

> Hi.
>
> At 07:35 16/09/01 -0400, Frank Carmickle said:
> >Well Gordon your gonna have to do what I did on my first day of using any
> >sort of unix and compile your own kernel.  I know it's jumping in head
> >first but if that's what you want your going to have to do it.  Personally
> >my experiences with suse slackware redhat caldera corel and turbo have all
> >lead me to use debian.  Enough of the distro war though.  Unfortunately
> >there aren't any people on this list using suse so were probably not going
> >to be much help.
> Well if I can work out how to compile the kernel, I'd have a go.  As
> another list member suggested, Slackware isn't seeing my second controller,
> and of course, the additional hard drives either.  So, that seems to rule
> it out - unless I can find a way to shrink my Windows partition on drive 1,
> without destroying the data.
>
> >Let me know if you need any help.  I'd be glad to give you a hand.
>
>
> It would be good if you can point me in the direction of some place to
> start looking into kernel compilation.  I have the document I got from the
> Speakup site, but it assumes some kernel building experience, of which I
> have none.
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards, Gordon Smith.
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