Alexander Gieg wrote:
>
>
> Ooops, I've make a little mistake here. It's "xlib6",
> not "xlib".
>
Never mind, xlib is almost a synonyme to xlib6 because very
few applications nowadays still use X11R5 libraries. Or am I wrong?
> > I use lilo, so I don't know the procedure. But all these cp,
> > rm and ln, do you really need to do them manually? They don't
> > seem to consist an "orthodox" procedure. For me, after "make
> > clean; make dep", I just need to "make zlilo" and everything
> > will be in place: old vmlinuz is moved to vmlinuz.old,
> > System.map is created, etc.
>
> I don't known this. I don't see this in the docs at the
> kernel source directory.
Look at /usr/src/linux/Readme.xxx. In fact, as a newbie,
one should learn the habit to read all the Readme and Install
files immediately after unpacking source files (esp all the
.tar.gz packages), at least the Install file. That helps a lot
and reduce problems afterwards.
Actually, some friends of mine are always complaining
that there are a lot of things to read before we could do something.
But the rest of us don't agree: we feel that if one doesn't have
the patience to do this, which is the Unix way, one should turn
back to the pnp Win95 system. Don't you agree? To read is a way
to learn. How could we increase our knowledge without learning?
> I think that a best thing would be a single "make kernel",
> for newbies, that would do *all* these makes in the correct
> order, only with some questions like: "Do you want to keep
> your current kernel?", "Do you want to create a new LILO
> entry to boot your previous kernel?" and so on.
>
First of all, I don't think compiling a tailor-made kernel
is something for newbies, it seems too dangerous. By the way, I am
still a Slackware Linux user. I join this group so as to learn the
stability of Debian Linux before switching. One question: is there
the loadlin package provided in Debian?
>
> This is necessary because "make modules_install" in
> kernel 2.0.27 doesn't remove the old modules if your
> previous kernel have the same version number. This can
> create problems...
Another user had answered this for you. Take a look at his
reply.
> ...
>
> Alexander Gieg
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