[svlug] Fry's Bargin Box Problem w/RH

[Rafael]

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Richard Bottoms wrote:

> > Now you're looking into hiring somebody who knows this stuff.  That costs
> > $$$ too. I know people who would not touch that for less than $100 an
> > hour.
> 
> Who says I wouldn't be willing to pay $100 an hour? The beauty of Open Source is once
> someone has showed me how to recompile the kernel at their $100hr rate, I can do it
> myself from then on. Thus I get the benefit of inexpensive machines and acquire new
> knowledge.

Assuming you installed everything or at least the kernel sources, and you
are runing under X, do the following as root:

cd /usr/src/linux
You should see the following:

COPYING        Makefile        System.map  include  lib      scripts
CREDITS        README          arch        init     mm       vmlinux
Documentation  REPORTING-BUGS  drivers     ipc      modules
MAINTAINERS    Rules.make      fs          kernel   net     

run
make xconfig 

and a nice GUI tool will come up. It's more or less self explanatory with
some help in it.

Make changes, save and exit.

Alternativley you could run make menuconfig
followed by

make dep;make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

you'll get bzImage in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/

Copy it to /boot
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz.new

and make necessary changes to /etc/lilo.conf. Run lilo.

Reboot to see if it's OK. You can move /boot/vmlinuz.new to /boot/vmlinuz
after you saved the old /boot/vmlinuz (cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.old)
and reconfigure lilo.conf and rerun lilo.

The above is somewhat simplified... Worth $100?

Well, you can buy a beer tonight after the meeting :-)

I strongly recommend you read various HOW-TOs which can be found at
http://www.linuxhq.com/info.html and other places if you want to learn
about Linux and come to the Installfests.

Forget all about Apple II :-)

> 
> 
> r.b.
> 

Good luck,

Rafael Skodlar
                Windows users are frozen in time.
                        -- Unknown penguin, Antarctica



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