Thanks Tom, that seems to have worked. Despite compilingin SCSI and tape
support however I STILL can't get my Seagate Travan drive to peep!
How difficult can it be?
Daryl Johnson
Proplan Associates
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman
> Sent: 14 April 2001 14:51
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] mkinitrd but what?
>
>
> On Saturday 14 April 2001 04:49 am, Daryl Johnson wrote:
> > Would some kind person be prepared to supply some insight?
> > In the statement mkinitrd /boot/[name of image] [new kernel version]
> > I am starting with [name of image] = initrd-2.4.0.img but I am
> > increasingly puzzled as to [new kernel version] The man and info pages
> > don't help a lot
> > As usual a good example would help immensely
>
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.3-10tom.img 2.4.3-10tom
>
> I compiled 2.4.3-10mdk from source, editing EXTRAVERSION = -10tom
> in the Makefile. If I'd installed the readymade kernel, I would
> have left
> it as -10mdk.
>
> If your /boot/vmlinux points to vmlinux-2.4.0, then you'd run
>
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.0.img 2.4.0
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