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hi,
i have a couple of questions, i understand that most of you will more than likely think if you don't know this you shouldn't be using slack nor it's derivatives but i read that a ubuntu user will learn ubuntu, fedora will learn redhat and a slack user will learn linux, so time to make a fool of myself;

1.. i understand how to compile a kernel thanks to this site http://muaythaimaster74.blogspot.com/20 ... ernel.html but although the current kernel works i cannot find matches to my hardware so is there a site that can build kernels or anywhere i can find custom ones

2.. how does one use the "sbopkg" tool on salix

any help would be most appreciatted
praise bob

try-alls wrote:2.. how does one use the "sbopkg" tool on salix

I'll answer that one

Just like in Slackware, so in other words just follow the instructions on the sbopkg website, download their package
& use it as instructed.

Akuna wrote:

try-alls wrote:2.. how does one use the "sbopkg" tool on salix

I'll answer that one

Just like in Slackware, so in other words just follow the instructions on the sbopkg website, download their package
& use it as instructed.

sweet and thankyou,
i can't install via the installpkg command, why is that?

try-alls wrote:1.. i understand how to compile a kernel thanks to this site http://muaythaimaster74.blogspot.com/20 ... ernel.html but although the current kernel works i cannot find matches to my hardware so is there a site that can build kernels or anywhere i can find custom ones

Why would you want to run another kernel?
Of course there are no sites that provide kernels for your hardware. How should they know what you need? Distribution kernels provide modules for most hardware and it's no problem to have unneeded ones. They only waste some kb of disk space

thenktor wrote:

try-alls wrote:1.. i understand how to compile a kernel thanks to this site http://muaythaimaster74.blogspot.com/20 ... ernel.html but although the current kernel works i cannot find matches to my hardware so is there a site that can build kernels or anywhere i can find custom ones

Why would you want to run another kernel?
Of course there are no sites that provide kernels for your hardware. How should they know what you need? Distribution kernels provide modules for most hardware and it's no problem to have unneeded ones. They only waste some kb of disk space

i was told a more specific kernel will speed up boot etc my laptop is currently boot in around a minute+
whereas lucid an fedora 12+ booted in around 20secs

Of course there are tweaks for special hardware that speed up boot, but fur a common PC this is nonsense. Try the lilo option "compact" if the kernel takes a lot of time to load at the beginning of the boot process.

thenktor wrote:Of course there are tweaks for special hardware that speed up boot, but fur a common PC this is nonsense. Try the lilo option "compact" if the kernel takes a lot of time to load at the beginning of the boot process.

would that be best done by nano or the lilo settings app

i take it i replace "quiet" to compact on the conf file

try-alls wrote:2.. how does one use the "sbopkg" tool on salix

Do a search in these forums. You'll need to edit the sbopkg script to have it working in Salix. Change one line actually.

try-alls wrote:

thenktor wrote:Of course there are tweaks for special hardware that speed up boot, but fur a common PC this is nonsense. Try the lilo option "compact" if the kernel takes a lot of time to load at the beginning of the boot process.

would that be best done by nano or the lilo settings app

i take it i replace "quiet" to compact on the conf file

The "compact" option has it's own line. See this example:

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
# Append any additional kernel parameters:
append="quiet resume=/dev/sda2 vt.default_utf8=1"
boot = /dev/sda
compact

And don't forget to run "lilo" in a terminal as root after editing the conf file.

ah, much faster, thank you guys
also to any other slack noobs reading this or brain deads like me, lol
i had to add the line "lba32" an i placed it directly underneath where thenktor stated to place compact
(probably common sense but i figured it may help)

i will search the sbopkg edit later when i get back

again i will say thankyou again you have been far more helpful than the other linux-based forums i have used in the past.