Re: Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Debian on a Sun Fire V65x, which is basically an intel whitebox > server. It uses the SE7501WV2 board > (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&;). >

Re: Kernel options?

2004-01-07 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic79xx > scsi. Since I'm installing woody, I'd like to stick with a Debian kernel, but sadly > no stable kernels have aic79xx in them already. Lots of

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..shorewall is neat. Using the webmin gui module? Nope, editing the configuration file by hand. ..if you're a iptables newbie fresh from the ipchains bronze age world, just make sure you understand the subtle new meanings to a few things in iptables. ;-) Heh, I never

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:04:07 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains > > support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in > > in my rule lists, s

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in in my rule lists, seatch netfilter.org mailing lists for samples of " -j ALLOW RELATED,ESTABLISHED " in action. Well, that's a given. Th

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:39:04 +0100, Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:17, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but > > would like > > to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 06:21 Subject: Re: Kernel options, modules, etc. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > Ok that means I have to unpack kernel source

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-05 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Ok that means I have to unpack kernel source to get the required > documents. Thanks, > Hoyt You could just install the kernel-docs... apt-get install kernel-doc-x.y.zz -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steve Lamb (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would > like to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to > make absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is > right the first time. Currently it

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Steve Lamb said, : I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would like to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to make absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is right the first time. Currently it is running

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-04 Thread Alf Werder
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:17, Steve Lamb wrote: > I've got a machine that I do not have physical access to but would like > to recompile the kernel for. As you can expect I would need to make > absolutely sure that the kernel configuration I come up with is right the > first time. Currentl

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 19:49 Subject: Re: Kernel options, modules, etc. > On Wed, 20

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > There has been a lot of talk about kernels on the list lately and I am at a > loss to understand what options or modules are required. Is there a > document that lists these items that I could read. The modules you need are the ones that correspon

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) > Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on > /dev/hda > > You want to write

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the > kernel configurati

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda You want to write the boot loader to the MBR, not the partition boot sector. If

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, July 07 at 5:22 PM EDT > Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > >good but is there a doc somewhere that exp

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-07 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, July 07 at 5:22 PM EDT Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all >good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the >kernel configuration better?

Re: kernel options/settings

2000-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: kernel options/settings Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:07:21PM -0500 On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:07:21PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > okay, with > apt-get in

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
And, the non-debian option -- /usr/src/linux/.config has all the options too, if you ran make [menu|x]config. :) On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 04:23:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > If it's either a Debian-supplied kernel, or one in which make-kpkg was > used to create an installable debfile, you

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
If it's either a Debian-supplied kernel, or one in which make-kpkg was used to create an installable debfile, you will find it's config-file in /boot/config-VERSION. On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:02:50PM -0700, Fish Smith wrote: > Please send replies directly to me, as I am not > subscribed to the li

Re: Kernel options

1999-09-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Fish Smith wrote: > Please send replies directly to me, as I am not > subscribed to the list. It's considered more polite to ask for CCs to you, instead of [implicitly] asking for replies to go only to you. Since the question is on topic fo