On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:22:48AM -0300, xgnu wrote: > Hi all. > > This is my first messsage to the list. > I have installed debian potato 2.2 and I have a few questions. > > 1: I choose boot from a floppy disk, but the boot process is > very slow (until pass control to hd). Is there any way to > speed up the boot process? >
You will want to install a boot loader like lilo. Try running - liloconfig Take a look at - man lilo man lilo.conf man liloconfig > 2: The kernel version is 2.2.17. I want to compile 2.4.5, but > I have a tar.gz file, not the deb pkg and I had not installed > development tools. Which packages I need to compile the new > kernel? > For instructions on how to upgrade to 2.4.x kennels - http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 You can use Adrian's packages at - http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > thanks, and of course, sorry for my english! (i'm argentinian). Your English is fine:) kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
