Has anyone any comments on the best way to transfer large amounts of material between two computers (say work and home)? I usually use a floppy or ftp, but have used a digital camera and CD. What about: Flash card readers? Mp3 players? Iomega drives? Removable drives? JDL

I know this is an easy question because I've forgotten the answer. Do you need to do anything with /boot/System.map after recompiling the kernel? I've just recompiled 2.4.2 and run lilo and have System.map-2.4.2 in /boot. I also have System.map-2.2.14 from the original (6.4) installation. I seem to recall that you could have a file called simply System.map and that you had to do something special if you had two versions of the same kernel release. I just want to record this in my changelog. The new kernel works just fine. JDL

* Ed Harrison [Aug 13. 2001 16:52]:

** Reply to message from John D Lamb on Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:34:17 +0100

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I seem to recall that you could have a file called simply System.map and that you had to do something special if you had two versions of the same kernel release.

In /boot I have a System.map for each kernel there; i.e. a vmlinuz-2.4.6 and a System.map-2.4.6. I read somewhere that the same 'extra' designation on vmlinuz and System.map should be the same.

Yes, correct. But the System.map file is only necessary when decoding kernel OOPS's, so if you know you're never going to do that, don't bother. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.