moving from amd to p3?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

you can check tldp.
But, I'm using sighted help. don't want to make my grandma sit through
kernel compilation.
Is there any way I can just install like debian with a really old kernel,
like off flyppy, then use apt to upgrade?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Berry" <sberry at northlc.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
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Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: moving from amd to p3?


> Another question here Doug.  What if you don't know how to compile a
kernel
> are there any good tutorials?   I use Fedora but at least a general
tutorial
> would help to begin.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Doug Sutherland
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:50 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3?
>
> If you are installing on amd system then moving to p3 system,
> and the kernel is crashing, then you need to find a way to boot
> a more generic kernel on the target system. If there is no CD
> the hopefully there is floppy drive. Prepare or find a generic
> kernel for the floppy disk, and when booting, from the boot
> prompt, you'll need to do something like:
>
> generic-kernel-name root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd
>
> Where generic-kernel-name is the name of the kernel on boot
> disk and root points to the root filesystem partition on the
> target machine. Basically you want to boot the kernel on the
> floppy but boot it using the root filesystem on the target hard
> drive. Once the system is booted, compile a new kernel on
> the p3 and update the bootloader accordingly to refer to the
> new kernel.
>
>   -- Doug
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