From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov([140.90.236.101]) (1858 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:19:50 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov (hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov [140.90.236.101]) by hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA28415 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:19:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:19:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Wantz To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: More Debian fun In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000412140854.007bad00@ycardz.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Buddy Brannan wrote: Hi Buddy, I am still a newcomer myself--but I can handle dmesg, I ran across it in the Ethernet.HOWTO. What dmesg is, is all of that stuff jabbers when we bring up linux, the stuff we normally insert/enter (grin). Jim Wantz WB0TFK > What...I'm still learning--what, is dmesg a command to run that I redirect > to a text file? > > Actually, I think I must've been doing something else when I told you I > tried a custom kernel with nearly all the IDE controllers in it. I did > make config > make bzImage > and then cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/bvmlinux /floppy/linux > Then > cd /floppy > rdev linux /dev/fd0 > > It didn't boot at all, so I re-made the root disk from the disk I got from > you. So I don't know if there were more or fewer. (BTW, I did the kernel > compile on the machine that works.) > > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV > Email: davros@ycardz.com > Voice mail: 877-791-5298 > All opinions are all mine! > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >