Re: RTFM adventure with Debian.....

From: Josef Oswald (linux.os_at_chello.at)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:29:53 GMT

"David L. Johnson" <david.johnson@lehigh.edu> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:12:44 +0000, Josef Oswald wrote:
>
>> The Idea is that regular users can create custom kernels and install
>> them too, or am I mistaken?
>
> I don't get this. You think that a regular user should be able to install
> a new kernel? Is there nothing that should be restricted to root, then?
> Somehow, I would think that installing a new kernel needs to be a root
> decision.
>
> "Creating" one is another issue. You can compile a kernel on your own
> filespace, no problem. But the installation will affect all users, once
> the new kernel is booted. The reason you could not compile the kernel
> where you were was a permission issue. man chmod to fix that.

OK :-) _I_ was mistaken, better misunderstood this important issue.

>
>> follow instructions in HOWTOS just to find that one has spend a couple
>> of hours (reading the required Documentation) to realize at the end one
>> wasted the time..... and one has to su to root to install the kernel....
>
> If there is a distribution that allows random users to install a kernel,
> I would imagine that such a distribution would be the choice of hackers.
> But if having to su to root is too much to bear, maybe, yes, you should
> avoid debian.

And miss out on all the fun? So far I have not used one Linux
distribution that needed no fiddling with configurations files.

The major reason why I had to compile a new kernel was to get two
sound-cards working. One is a a on-board Via 8233 the other is a PCI
Sound-blaster Live 5.1... but this would be new thread....

 
Josef Oswald linux.os@chello.at 

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