Quote Originally Posted by Stephen
Ah beat me to it I threw together a couple of pages here to document my efforts getting it going and one thing I do not have though is the module-init-tools line that you have did you have problems when you rebooted to the 2.6.1 kernel that caused you to have to install it, I had already upgraded the install before I rebooted to 2.6.1 and did not have any problems so it may have upgraded the package without me noticing.
yes as matter of fact I did. It took me 2 installs to get knoppix 2.6.1 up and running. The first time i booted into 2.6.1 my usb mouse and onboard nic card weren;t seen. I figured that module-init-tools had been included since it worked in the live install, but that did not appear to be the case. I ran kudzu after this first install thinking there was just an autodetection problem, but I think that just fubared things mroe than anything. So I decided to scrap that install and start over, and this time a little voice in my head said "try installing module-init-tools while you're in linux old, and to get it there, I used the sudo wget command from the live CD. anyway around 7am I had everying up and running, removed some servers I didn;t need, removed gnome, pulled over my backup copy of sources.list and upgraded to the KDE 3.2 cvs head and all is right as rain.

the new VMware rc3 even works with the 2.6.1 default kernel. I was then also able to successfully compile the 2.6.3rc3 kernel (from source + patch),. Copied the .config file over from the 2.6.1 folder, and ran make oldconfig. then ran make menuconfig (as there's some QT library problem that won;t let me run xconfig). Tried to really clean up the kernel, optimizing it for my Athon Xp processor, removing modules I KNOW I didn;t need, support for stuff like irda, ic2, etc. The end result was a faster system, though VMWare balked at the new kernel modules libraries.. so i think I musta removed too much, I figure I'll give it another shot when the offical 2.6.3 kernel is released, but for now I'm happy with 2.6.1,. WORLDS of impriovement from 2.4.2x, KDE just screams at a freakish BeOS like speed when dragging windows, sound quality is greatly improved with the addition fo ALSA, I'm a happy camper.

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one thing I did notice though Stephen is there's a few extraneous/un-needed things in your install guide pertaining to /etc//lilo.conf editing.

  1. no need to edit installation-drive/etc/fstab after the install when you're in the live CD. by defualt the prompt and timeout variables are as you specified them in your guide. all you need to do is run is (installion-drive)/sbin/lilo -v so that LinuxOLD will be mapped to the 2.4 kernel
  2. after making the initrd image, no need to comment out that line in /etc/lilo.conf, simply replace the image name with the one you created, you know the first initrd.gz is bad, so wipe it.
  3. why are you running the knoppix-installer 3 times? Or was this just a rehashing of your discovery that those files needs to be downloaded and copied?