On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 10:50, Stephen Pearce wrote:
Could someone advise me on either how to get it going using rh9 .. or which alternate distro would be best ..rh is the one I'm familiar with. Also ..can you install a new distro without a reformat of the disk .. to preserve all my personal files?
The key to getting a new kernel to boot with RH9 is to make sure that you change as few options as possible. I would suggest grabbing the config of the currently running kernel which you will find in /boot and copying that to .config in your kernel build tree, then run make oldconfig - I usually just accept the defaults in this. Once you have done that you can make menuconfig and change the options that you need - remember to change as little as possible. Then build and install as per usual. The complexity is due to Redhat assuming that you will have certain things compiled as modules etc. In some cases you may also have to create an initrd but I've never had to do this so I have no idea how. HTH -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM: +64 21 611 544