From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I73qR-0002MW-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:32:39 -0400 Received: (qmail 31339 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Jul 2007 23:32:06 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 23:32:06 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: initrd question Message-ID: <20070707063206.GA31253@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070707045535.GA29060@localhost.localdomain> <003d01c7c065$8bc2ae50$ab00a8c0@tenstac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003d01c7c065$8bc2ae50$ab00a8c0@tenstac> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:32:39 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:07:55AM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Well that's all kernel stuff, but it would be best to include > them all. What is a linux install disk? It's a ramdisk with > generic kernel. That's the kind of kernel you want. It > makes no sense to make it specific to your machine, > you want a ramdisk that will boot on anything. I only meant this for the initial stage to get things working. Once that is done, it would be best of course to include support for all sound cards, that would be trivial compared to the rest of the process. I have played with creating ramdisks before, so I'm familiar with the basics. I've also built alsa from source, but never looked at it. If ./configure, make, make install worked, which they always did, I just moved on, and never bothered looking at the results, because I didn't need to, and because I wasn't interested. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGjzNm7s9z/XlyUyARAur5AJ4tdkOlyFIEAnKuwJeFkJXdhfI1PACgwpoi AGWKJMhoFzBGDTAKG9MFyAQ= =mQ6i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----