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it was install by making the linux 32 bit, since my last post i have managed to find the uninstall.sh file that was hidden away so gonna use that, failing that theres always the del button cheers dude

hopefully i wont need to post anything else in this thread (for a good while), so you can relax from "babysitting" this noob.

i believe i have spoke too soon as hear comes another noob question,

i have install slackware 13.1 but with the addition of your fine repository but it has been installed with the huge kernel so now i wish to swap it to the generic kernel (as all the other distro's used the generic one) which is also installed (well it shows up on gslapt an xpkgtools, lol) i need to create an initrd an point my lilo.conf in the right direction but i can't get my head around it,
my hd is set out with one 3gb swap an the rest as / in ext3 format an i run solely as root.
if someone could set me on the right path i would be much obliged

Stay to the huge kernel and be happy Or why would you want to hassle with an initrd?

huge is well as it says huge my laptop is less than 2yrs old an a heck of alot of stuff in the huge one is unnecessary, i tried using the command from the readme in /boot but edited to mkinitrd - -k generic-2.6.33.4 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sda1

There is somewhere an helper script provided - afaik in /usr/share/mkinitrd/ or /usr/share/initrd-tools/ - that can generate the required command line for you.
mkinitrd is inalienable if you have / (root partition), /boot, /etc or something else (that is boot process related) located in LVM, but I would not suggest currently to fiddle with this currently.

damNageHack wrote:There is somewhere an helper script provided - afaik in /usr/share/mkinitrd/ or /usr/share/initrd-tools/ - that can generate the required command line for you.
mkinitrd is inalienable if you have / (root partition), /boot, /etc or something else (that is boot process related) located in LVM, but I would not suggest currently to fiddle with this currently.

cheers just going to reboot an se if there is a difference

try-alls wrote:as all the other distro's used the generic one

Which other distros? Why do you think that someone else calling their kernel "generic" means that it is the same as what slackware calls "generic"? Get over the "huge" name and you'll see that it is fine. If you actually examine those other distributions' "generic" kernels you'll find that they have more in common with the slackware "huge" kernel than the "generic" one.

try-alls wrote:huge is well as it says huge my laptop is less than 2yrs old an a heck of alot of stuff in the huge one is unnecessary

OK, let's say you have a 100 MHz ARM CPU with 32 MB RAM, then perhaps you'll notice a difference.
Let's say you have a 1.5 GHz Pentium class CPU with 512 MB RAM, then you won't notice any difference.

Trust me, I've used Linux on all these types of hardware

lol since making an initrd there was as you said no difference but the learning was fun.
back to googling speeding up the boot

hi.....again,
i have added your salix tools package to allow me to control the default volume levels an lilo setup but the don't load in slackware, they appear in the menu but once clicked the mouse goes to the loading icon yet the app doesn't load, any ideas?
many thanks in advance
rich

EDIT: could a mod rename tis thread to something like silly questions so as all "FAQ's" can be in one place