Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-08 Thread Preston Boyington
Daniel Pittman wrote: > The OP didn't mention anything about boot time, though, and the most > commonly cited reason for a custom kernel (in my experience) is "speed", > where the poster assumes that a generic kernel must, necessarily, be > slower than a custom one. That was my assumption as well

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
Erik Sundin writes: > Den Wednesday > 08 April 2009 03.44.30 skrev Daniel Pittman: >> Preston Boyington writes: >> > After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided to >> > streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existing Debian >> > Sid install has been rep

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-07 Thread Erik Sundin
Den Wednesday 08 April 2009 03.44.30 skrev Daniel Pittman: > Preston Boyington writes: > > After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided > > to streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existing > > Debian Sid install has been replaced with a clean drive. > >

Re: Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
Preston Boyington writes: > After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided > to streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existing > Debian Sid install has been replaced with a clean drive. > > I believe I could get some speed with a custom kernel That is ex

Starting fresh on my Toshiba A105-S2101 and want a custom kernel

2009-04-07 Thread Preston Boyington
After happily using my laptop for the last couple years I've decided to streamline it a good bit. My hard disk that contains the existing Debian Sid install has been replaced with a clean drive. I believe I could get some speed with a custom kernel and would like to know how much trouble it will