From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:26:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:25:58 -0400 Received: from paloma14.e0k.nbg-hannover.de ([62.159.219.14]:63622 "HELO paloma14.e0k.nbg-hannover.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:25:49 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Dieter =?iso-8859-1?q?N=FCtzel?= Organization: DN To: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:25:00 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010625002550Z265816-17720+7279@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan wrote: > > > 4: make bzImage && make modules && make modules install && cp > > arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/'uname -r' something inside make menuconfig > > So really you want an outside GUI tool that lets you reconfigure build and > install kernels. Yeah I'd agree with that. Someone just needs to write the > killer gnome/kde config tool. I've got C code for parsing/loading config.in > files and deducing the dependancy constraints if anyone ever wants to try > and write such a tool 8) KDE-2.2 will do this. I have KDE-2.2alpha2 running here (beta1 is around the corner) and it has it included. I looked at it but didn't tested it, yet. KDE Control Center --> System --> Linux Kernel Configurator > > 8: A way to change kernel without rebooting. I have no diskdrive or > > cddrive in my laptop so I often do drastic things when I install a new > > distribution. > > Thats actually an incredibly hard problem to solve. The only people who do > this level of stuff are some of the telephony folks, and the expensive > tandem non-stop boxes. SUN Enterprise IBM S/390 (zSeries) etc... -Dieter