At 14:21 16/09/01 -0500, Kirk Wood said: >And now we can solve a huge mystery. The following *should* represent the >drive letter vs the designation in linux: >1 - hda >cdrom - hdb >2 - hdf >3 - hdg >4 - hdh >5 - hdi It would seem that Slackware is only seeing the first controller, only one hard disk and the CD-ROM exist, as far as it is concerned. >The first two are definately correct. But it is a certainty that your >drive 3 is *not* hdc. The reason SUSE is able to install is that it is not >making you specify the drive position. Suse was one of the first to >eliminate the need to understand a very easily misunderstood drive >designation. That sounds reasonable, yeah. >Quite honestly, if you have a distribution installed, I would recomend >that you patch the kernel, compile and go on. I shied away from this task >for a long time. Then one day decided I had nothing better to do then >reinstall if I messed something up. The long and short is that it was >actually quite easy. In fact, it is so easy that I would recomend >everybody to compile their own kernel. Start with cutting out all the crap >in a stock kernel you don't use. As a total novice, is there somewhere I can get my hands on a step-by-step guide to this process? I'm not frightened to try it if I have all the necessary information to hand. As you say, if I break it, I just laugh about it, put it down to experience, and re-install. >I have cut boot time significantly be eliminating the stuff in a stock >kernel that my machine doesn't use anyway. I cut it further by building in >things like network card support directly. Sure I made mistakes along the >way. I also found my own way of tracking what I have done. I discovered >that there is no need to name my kernel vmlinuz. I discovered that there >is no need to pout a softlink in the root directory to this. I discovered >that I can name my kernel to indicate the version number and date if I >choose. > >You can find out a lot by playing here. Got to know where to start first, <smile>. Kind regards, Gordon Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk" "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539 at one2one.net" http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk ICQ: 23973878 MSN Messenger: gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 Fax.: +44 1642 357 754
