In woody there used to be such a nice beer drinking tux while booting.
Why is he not there anymore in sarge.

Or better yet how can i get there?

Thnx a bunch

What package you are talking about?

When i installed debian woody there used to be in the text based part of booting a small penguin in the upper left corner holding a jug of beer.

Now i have installed the net-inst version of sarge and it's not there anymore

You are talking about using the framebuffer when you boot, you get it by putting something like this in your /etc/lilo.conf (although with the new installer your probably using grub) vga=791. Here's a table of the ones I know about.

If you post the grub config file whatever it is we could possibly tell you where to put the option so you get this of course assuming I am correct and you are using grub if using lilo just change or uncomment the already existing line in the /etc/lilo.conf and then use a number from the above for the resolution and colour depth you want the run /sbin/lilo -v all this as root of course.

It is the boot logo on the framebuffer. However, the Penguin logo has changed and Tux is no longer drinking beer You would probably have to patch the kernel somehow with the old beer drinking penguin, but I wouldn't know how it is done. Also, in recent (2.6.x) stock Debian kernel images, the boot logo is turned off, so you get no image even after enabling the framebuffer. You have to turn on the boot logo in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel. If you do that, you will get a penguin, but no beer.

This part of the newbiedocs shows you how to do it, it is for the Debian logo but the principal should be the same when you get the penguin logo patch from Debian if they still have it that is. That kind of sucks no more Tux with the framebuffer never knew that I use only the kernel.org sources it works fine there thanks for the info.

PFew looks like i have something to do this weekend
22 Pages of howto install and configure your kernel.

Since i have read the pages and it warns me about 3 times to make a backup on a floppy. i was wandering if i can also make a backup of the recent kernel to a cd since i was to cheap to buy a floppy drive

wich command should i use for that?

cdrecord mkboot path_to_kernel ?

I don't worry about the backup because I also don't have a floppy. What I do is keep a Knoppix CD on hand. If for some reason you can't boot into your computer, you can boot up in Knoppix. Once in Knoppix, you can chroot to your hard drive and fix whatever is wrong. Take a look at www.knoppix.net docs and forums for using Knoppix as a rescue CD. Most any other live CD can be used that way as well (Morphix, Mepis, etc.)

Yes thats a smart idea indeed
I have a knoppix cd at hand

When i run into trouble i will post in this thread..
Lets get my feet wet! and do some kernel compiling OHHH JOY!!!!

In short - keep always a kernel that is good in /boot - heck I got about 9 different kernel in there.Have to do some spring cleaning one day.
That howto is debian specific.I never built my kernels that way even with debian because it is imho just too complicated.I don't care what anybody says.
If you build a kernel the normal way you just download the source and unpack it to /usr/src then point the /usr/src/linux symlink to it and do cd /usr/src/linux - make menuconfig - configure the kernel - make bzImage - make modules_install copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot and configure the boot loader.
End of story.
Oh - don't forget to pray to your favourite divine entity during reboot

the kernel upgrade patch worked out but check this out!
I found something way cooler than tux drinking beer!!!
You can make your own!

Check this out!
http://www.bootsplash.de/

that rocks