GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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At the time of installing the NIC card (e10000) was not supported by the available Debian kernels. Kernel 2.4.20 fixed this. A kernel was compiled from source and patched up to 2.4.20-pre11. The default .config (i.e., starting from no .config file) was the starting point. Below is recorded the specific configurations added.
# cd /usr/src
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.20-pre11.gz
# tar zxvf linux-2.4.19.tar.gz
# cd linux-2.4.19
# gzip -dc ../patch-2.4.20-pre11.gz | patch -p1 -N -F4
# make menuconfig
Processor type and features
Processor family
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
General
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
Block devices
RAM disk support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
Network device support
Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
CONFIG_E1000=y
Sound
CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=y
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg --append-to-version -gjw --revision sis01
--initrd kernel_image
# cd ..
# wajig install kernel-image-2.4.19-gjw_sis01_i386.deb
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This works just fine and all standard drivers (CDROM and NFS) were included by default and the e1000 support included in the kernal. The resulting kernel is quite a bit smaller that the kernels supporting lots of hardware (700K initrd cf 2.4MB and 56K modules cf 20MB)!
