which kernel?
during the installation of slack 9.1 i was asked to choose which kernel has to be used among a quite wide range. i really don't have any idea about what is best or best fitting to my system. help please
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Depends on what kind of 'special hardware' you have.
Most standard computers work fine whit the bare.i kernel, but it would help if you tell us something about your computer. |
i'm installing on a old laptop fujitzu-siemens lifebook-c series. hd 20gb, ram 64mb (sigh!!!), internal modem lucent. is it enough? what others info do you need?
tanks |
Then I think the bare.i kernel will do. But you might also try bareacpi.i (thisone contains ACPI support, mostly used for laptops)
btw,you can see a complete list whit of the kernels whit description on the slackware-CD in bootdisks/README.TXT |
in addition i can say i'll like to connect my laptop with usb memory key and a digital camera
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no problem, should work..;)
I know atleast that a memory-key shouldn't be any problem at all. I use them all the time don't know about camera's, but i assume the are mounted just like memory-keys.. |
ok i'll try.
at the moment i have installed bare.i how can i switch to bareacpi.i? should i re-install slack from the beginning? |
run 'pkgtool' as root. Then under Setup, chose 'install kernel from bootdisk'.
there you can chose another kernel from the slackware CD. |
i tried but with no results.
i run pkgtool but when i select setup/install kernel it spit me out the the first screen whitout making any change. the same appens when i tried to change the window manager. |
I just found out that the pkgtool kernel option doesn't work here either, but all other options do. Dunno why:confused:
anyways, what you could to install the bareacpi kernel is copy the files from the slackware CD (in /kernels/bareacpi.i/) to /boot. When You do this, extract the file System.map.gz to /boot/System.map-acpi, and copy the file bzimage to /boot/bzImage-acpi. (dont just copy the files from the cd to /boot. Thatway you will overwrite your old kernel!) Then edit /etc/lilo.conf add something like this: Code:
image=/boot/bzImage-acpi after that run lilo to add the changes. -->I'm kinda doing this from the top of my head.. SO be warned.:o |
to use pkgtool, you must do a 'cd' to the proper directory where the files you want to install are located and then run pkgtool
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