On Friday 04 June 2004 07:28 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Is that seriously your only computer? Not hardly, but it's my only laptop until Dell gets me my replacement next week- I hope. You don't have anything more modern?
Of course, I'm computer poor with 6 or 7 running here. I even have one running windows for my annual taxes.
You know you don't have to be on the K6 just to compile a kernel targeted at it, right?
I kinda figured that was an option, expecially since the kernels that I get have been done to on another computer, but it seemed easier to just download the source and do the compile on the laptop rather than messing with doing the transfers etc.I guess I could make an rpm on one of the other machines. Although I have used checkinstall to make an rpm a couple of times, I dont know how to properly package all the module stuff so I haden't tried but I guess I should. Sure would be nicer if I didnt have to go through all that, though. Compiling kernels and modules is not real high on my fun list.
?????
That's a *LOT* longer than it took to compile a Slackware kernel on my old 66 MHz 486 DX2.
yes, it shouldn't take so long but I apparently had a bad cache or something in my harddrive. I replaced it with a like unit and my disk access times halved. Still, it takes to long to make it fun. If I hadn't gone to wireless I would still be using the 2.4.19 kernel. ra