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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,17:36 QUOTE

I'm having a lot of fun with it. My wife complains sometimes when I tell her I want this or that new computer thing, but her hobby is shopping, so mine takes up a lot less space.
I use, and love the Frugal Install because it's so easy on the hardware. Everything that you need get's loaded on a RAM disk and only writes to hardware when you log off or backup. Anyway, When I first started in computing and other people were asking me to help them out, I used to say, "Just play around with it until you learn it. You can't do anything to it that I can't undo." I don't say that too much anymore, because I found that you could lose some important stuff for good, if you don't put it somewhere safe. However, it's still mostly true. It's worth the risk to keep learning and growing. DSL makes it easy to learn because it's small and less complicated to figure out.


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Posted: Jan. 01 2006,04:48 QUOTE

My setup: PIII 666Mhz 512MB ram, with 6GB disk.

I need to know if I can re-make the Kernel from a frugal install?

I have tried both today (frugal and HD DSL 2.0 installs) with poor results each time.  On my frugal install I got gnu-utls.dsl, gcc1.dsl, linux-kernel-headers.dsl.  I uncompressed the source for linux-kernel-3.4.31 in /home/dsl.  After linking the linux-3.4.31 directory to linux, I copied dsl.config to linux/.config and ran 'make oldconfig' which completed.

Then when I run 'make dep' to setup all of the dependencies it gets wierd... it starts (what looks like recursively) make like over 1000 times until it fills up memory and my 1GB swap.  Also, make seems to start to do something similar.

Any help appreciated.
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Posted: Jan. 01 2006,07:00 QUOTE

I would create a temporary hd install just to compile my kernel.

Then I would save the files somewhere and apply the DSL remastering process (search the forums for keyword remaster) to build a new livecd with your recompiled kernel.

Finally, I would do a frugal installation from your new livecd.

Not a quick-n-easy process, but it is do-able.
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Posted: Jan. 03 2006,00:13 QUOTE

OK, so I have a recompiled kernel (make config; make dep; make bzImage) on a basic HD install. I am familiar with the remastering process.  

What I need help with is:

1) What files from the kernel compile do I need to copy over
to the directory that I am sourcing the remaster from?

and

2) What boot files from the kernel compile need to be copied and to where?

I have not found (using search) descriptions of incorporating a new kernal into the DSL remastering process.

Any help appreciated.
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Posted: Jan. 03 2006,12:15 QUOTE

Pretty much the enitire /lib/modules contents need to be copied over.

You also need a new linux24 (the file is usually called vmlinuz after a compile) for the boot folder.

Finally, you need to mount your minirt24.gz initial mini root filesystem as a "loopback device" and copy over any required boottime modules like usb or sata drivers for example.

I could have missed something, but that should cover most of the steps.
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