-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 March 2002 3:13 pm, Frederik Vos wrote:

On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 16:08, Ted Wager wrote:

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HI.. In /boot there is vmlinuz and vmlinuz.suse as well as some others.. The default boot is vmlinuz bot could someone tell me the difference between that and vmlinuz.suse which I assume is the failsafe option in the bootup screen ?? Regards Ted Wager

it's idd the difference as you can see in lilo

image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/hda2 initrd = /boot/initrd append = "enableapic vga=0x0317"

image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = failsafe root = /dev/hda2 initrd = /boot/initrd.suse append = "disableapic ide=nodma apm=off"

but so far as i can see there is no difference between this files, not in size, and also diff doesn't find differences.

regards Frederik Vos www.vosberg.be

of course, there would be if you had problems with apic, dma or apm.... and also, if you have your own custom kernel, this option would give you access to the SuSE 'backup' Tom - -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm attending the opening of my garage door." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8pIjIAEYnIVU7X9IRAlWNAJ4zSVaAwy8Dd1/w1s//diVGEPFWXwCghRkg hdgAD9C5WXyCwZz2chvUZ+k= =YGfI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On a related but a bit oblique note. Does the /usr/src/linux (/usr/src/linux-2.4-xx.suse) .config file reflect the settings for the installed default kernel (eg. vmlinux), the failsafe (vmlinux.suse) or neither after an install (or the install of a new kernel and kernel sources from the SuSE site)? (just curious). Normally, after installing a new kernel from the patch site, I like to tailor the kernel for my system. -- Jerry Feldman Portfolio Partner Engineering 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ Compaq Computer Corp. 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752

Hi all, I just gave Linux my first try and chose SuSE for an old laptop I picked up. I'm trying to work my way around the SuSE site and also get the laptop to do something. I have SuSE 7.3 on a P200 MMX and KDE -- I do not want an office package right now since I'm mainly interested in using it for php/html development and occasionally taking it on the road when I go out of town. Right now I mostly want to know if this is the right list for these new to SuSE & Linux issues and if there are any good tips/hints about getting familiar with the system and the SuSE website. My biggest problem right now is the PCMCIA card that is not recognized, so I ordered a different one that was on the official list at SuSE. TIA

I agree with his last comment, if you just want to do html/php, get a lite window manager (icewm is good). kde will run on your hardware, but it will be sluggish.  icewm or blackbox or something similar will be much faster.  the upside of this is you can still run kde apps (or gnome for that matter) On Friday 29 March 2002 09:50 am, you wrote:

On Friday 29 March 2002 3:46 pm, Tamara Abbey wrote:

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Hi all,

I just gave Linux my first try and chose SuSE for an old laptop I picked up. I'm trying to work my way around the SuSE site and also get the laptop to do something.

I have SuSE 7.3 on a P200 MMX and KDE -- I do not want an office package right now since I'm mainly interested in using it for php/html development and occasionally taking it on the road when I go out of town.

Right now I mostly want to know if this is the right list for these new to SuSE & Linux issues and if there are any good tips/hints about getting familiar with the system and the SuSE website.

My biggest problem right now is the PCMCIA card that is not recognized, so I ordered a different one that was on the official list at SuSE.

TIA

Indeed it is. Quick tip though, when posting a new topic dont select reply on someone elses message, because it buggers up our nice threaded displays...

If you just need php devel, then maybe kde is not a good idea for an old-ish laptop.

Tom

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* Jerry Feldman (gerry.feldman@compaq.com) [020329 07:28]:

Normally, after installing a new kernel from the patch site, I like to tailor the kernel for my system.

If it's a SuSE kernel your can always read the running config from /proc/config.gz so you can just cd /usr/src/linux && make cloneconfig which copies /proc/config.gz to /usr/src/linux/.config and runs 'make oldconfig'. Then run 'make menuconfig' or whatever you normally do to configure the kernel. -- -ckm