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linux kernel compile requirements

From: mhgraham@umich.edu (Dances With Crows)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: kernel checklist, anyone?
Date: 23 Sep 2000 15:52:11 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn8spnis.t9a.mhgraham@ragweed.crowdancer.org> 
References: <8qic97$qjm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> 

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:47:23 GMT, mutantcamel@libertysurf.co.uk wrote:
>I've been attempting to compile my own kernel recently, because
>my 'puter was stuck with v2.2.10.  First off, I'd like to admit, quite
>freely that I have not had a single success in getting 2.2.11 to run.
>Anyway, my question is does anyone know of a checklist of base stuff
>that absolutly, definatly has to be in there in order to at least get
>my kernel to boot?  I don't care about getting the more extraneous
>hardware working (IR port, etc...) just yet, I'm just getting a bit put
>off by the kernel panic message (sometime it dosen't even do that, and
>just get caught in a loop repeatedly dumping me back at the LILO
>prompt).

The stuff that has to be compiled directly in is surprisingly short:
ext2 filesystem support, support for the main hard drive you're using
(IDE or SCSI...), and ELF binary support.  You can build almost
everything else as a module.  Also, 2.2.11 is pretty old; the latest
stable version is 2.2.17.  

-- 
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