How to install
Woody release of Debian Linux on your PC
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obtain Debian official CDs of potato.
There are 4 CDs. You need binary-i386-1.NONUS or binary-i386-1. Both
are OK. Caz(ph: 85736) keeps the CDs.
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insert the CD into your PC and boot PC by CD.
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following the instruction you see on the screen and install Debian Linux
potato.
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When you are asked to read another CDs, answer no.
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login as root and invoke dselect.
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select [A]ccess, apt
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change source list as ftp://boulder.linux.ibm.com/pub/Debian, woody, main
contrib non-free
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select [U]pdate
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select [S]elect
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select kernel-source-2.4.9 and associated packages.
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select [I]nstall
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quit dselect by selecting [Q]uit.
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change directory to /usr/src
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make kernel source tree by
tar xjf kernel-source-2.4.9-tar.bz2
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get kernel configuration file by following command
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ftp boulder.linux.ibm.com
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login as anonymous and supply your email address as its password
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cd to pub/Debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/current/idepci
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get kernel-config
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change directory to kernel-source-2.4.9
cd kernel-source-2.4.9
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copy kernel-config as .config by following command.
cp ....../kernel-config .config
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configure as you want. Maybe you want to configure processor and no math
emulation.
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build the kernel and modules by following commands.
make dep; make clean; make bzlilo; make modules; make modules_install
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reboot with newly build kernel.
# reboot