Hi,

I am planning on installing Slackware 11 and would like to install it using huge26.s so that I will be running the 2.6.17.13 kernel. I read the slackware-HOWTO, README.txt and README.initrd on the distribution CDs along with other installation guides from different sites.

What confuses me is exactly what I need to install. I will be doing a clean install on a system with no other OS. I am planning on booting from the install CD and choosing huge26.s as the kernel to use right off the bat. I know that once I complete the install I need to go back and install the package kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz. I have also heard people say not to install the package kernel-headers-2.6.17.13-i386-1.tgz. But what about the package kernel-generic-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz? Do I need to install that one as well? Also do I need to run mkinitrd even though I only will have one kernel and one OS on my system?

Any advice or insight would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Please refer to this thread for a full discussion on this topic:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=513464

Basically, you just need to add the kernel-modules package available in the extra section of CD 2.

In my opinion, huge26.s is a bit "huge", so it's better if you can compile your own customer kernel after installing it and the kernel-modules package.

Thanks for the link to the other thread. I read the entire thread and it seems that since I will be installing using huge26.s, I do not want to install the package kernel-generic-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz. Do I need to bother with mkinitrd or since I will be installing using huge26.s from the begining is it not nesecary?

I installed huge26.s and its kernel-modules package on another machine and I didn't bother with mkinitrd.

After using the installer to install huge26.s, the only package you absolutely must install is:

I would also recommend you install the sources package as well if you want to compile any kernel modules later on, but it's not necessary.

Thanks for all the help. I installed slack 11 yesterday using hugh26.s without issue. I installed kernel-modules-2.6.17.13-i486-1.tgz and the source package and it worked great. I am having some issues with my sound card (no sound), but I am found some previous post that sound simular so I will try to work throught those myself.

You need to make an initrd (and fix your lilo config accordingly) if your kernel is on a JFS, XFS filesystem (maybe reiser also, i can't remember).

If your system comes up without one, you don't need it Initrd is to give you access to modules that weren't assembled into the kernel. A lot of modules were not, despite the name, huge26.s is not as huge as it could/should be.

I had problems compiling stuff that I fixed by also installing the kernel headers package. Other guys here seem to say it's not necessary but if you get wierd errors compiling certain packages try that.

Regarding installation of kernel headers:

In fact, what I meant is that there is no need to install package kernel-headers-2.6.17.13-i386-1.tgz located in extra/linux-2.6.17.13/ directory.

A standard installation of Slackware will install package kernel-headers-2.4.33.3-i386-1.tgz (located in directory d/) and this is sufficient even with a 2.6 kernel.

Please read the kernel-headers.WARNING file in the extra/linux-2.6.17.13/ directory for an explanation of why it's better to stick with the kernel headers of 2.4

I read that but it didn't help. So I installed the matching headers for the 2.6.17.13 kernel. I've built a lot of stuff since then and haven't had anything bad happen.