Re: [Trinux-talk] Compiling the kernel and recreating boot disks

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> Hi!  I was wondering what is required to recompile Trinux's kernel?
> I think I need to know:
>
> 1) Are you using any special patches to the standard kernel?

Nope

> 2) Where can I find the config file you used?

See http://trinux.sourceforge.net/kernel/2.4.13/

There are three different kernels (bare/ide/net) there is a config in each


> 3) Can I use modules?  I didn't see any in /lib/modules within
> initrd.gz.  Where do they go?

Modules can be added to the boot floppy and then you add the name and any
kernel parameters to the

Many of the modules have kernel-packages

see http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/2.4.13
    http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/2.4.5

which automatically install the modules


> 4) Do I need to do anything special for the boot loader?  (I'm used to
> lilo, and haven't used syslinux before.)

I have not sucessfully booted trinux from LILO before, only from
syslinux/isolinux and loadlin.

Let me know how it goes.

> 5) Any other pitfalls?

Heheh.,, :(  Let me know.


> I've got a utility I want that requires write access to NTFS, hense my
> initial need to build the kernel.  I often find myself hacking the
> kernel, though, so I'd like to understand how Trinux's kernel is built
> and installed.

Really the only thing special is the support for initrd and tmpfs, as
you'll see from the .configs there isn't much special.

-mdf