I would add: 1. Use a hard disk that you don't mind being trashed by your kernel compile experiments. Preferably on a separate test machine. 2. You can always set up a base test system that you know works and then copy it to a second hard drive so that the second drive is an exact image of the first. Disconnect this second drive from the IDE bus and proceed to do your 2.5.xx kernel experiments on the first drive. Did you trash the drive in the kernel playing process? No sweat, just copy the backup 'test system' image on the second drive to the first. You can write a script to do the partitioning, formatting and copying for you. Thanks Bob Cochran On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 05:36, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > based on having made pretty much every possible mistake there > was to make in experimenting with the 2.5 kernel, some random > thoughts for anyone else who wants to do the same, above and > beyond the actual steps posted earlier: > > 1) start with a fairly minimal feature set, and just get it to > boot. then start adding features little by little until you > have everything you want, if you want to be cautious. > > keep a working 2.4 kernel around, just in case. > > 2) stay on top of the bk patches as they come out. even if you > have no intention of actually rebooting with a new bk-patched > kernel, it's worth grabbing each bk patch, patching and > rebuilding to make sure there's no build problem, and running > "make oldconfig" will let you see if new features have been > added. > > 3) if you're seriously bored, play with make targets like > > # make allyesconfig > # make allnoconfig > # make allmodconfig > > type > > # make help > > to see the sorts of things you can do. > > 4) check out the linux-kernel archives at marc.10east.com. don't > subscribe to the actual linux-kernel mailing list unless you're > prepared for some serious traffic. > > 5) check out www.osdl.org/archive/cherry/stability for the stability > tests on each new version that comes out. > > now that linus torvalds and andrew morton have joined OSDL, new > versions of the 2.5 kernel are supposed to come out more frequently. > > what have i forgotten? > > rday > > -- > > Robert P. J. Day > Eno River Technologies > Unix, Linux and Open Source training > Waterloo, Ontario > > www.enoriver.com -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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