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Re: ILUG-Cochin Minutes.
- Subject: Re: ILUG-Cochin Minutes.
- From: Shanu <shanu@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:56:52 +0530
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
>
> Raghavendra Bhat proclaimed:
> > We were unable to fire up X due to video card problems and decided to
> > abandon it. Instead we compiled the kernel. We started by explaining
> > bzip2, gzip, tar and patch file concepts and how to deal with them. The
> > kernel used was the latest stable release 2.2.9.
>
> Did you use Manoj's kernel-package to compile a .deb of the kernel? I
> think it is the greatest thing since './configure; make; make test; make
> install' and sliced bread :-)
>
> Thaths
We didnt make an attempt to compile using make-kpkg coz we thought it
might be an overkill to these poor souls. Most of these guys were win32
users and didnt even know what a kernel is.
- -- Shanu
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Shanker Balan Debian/GNU Linux 2.1
St. Alberts College
Cochin
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