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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Steven, how difficult is it to compile links2 for BL3 and was there 
anything special you had to do for it?  I want to get the SVGAlib support 
so I can use it on a laptop 486 with 8-bit color in graphical mode.  Do 
you have some sort of configuration setup that you used which I could copy 
and just add SVGAlib support (and remove X support to save space)?  I can 
add the needed libraries (jpeg png tiff gif?) rather than compile them in.

I will also attempt to compile a later pppd that might work better with my 
external modem.  Is that tricky in any way?

Nice to have 3.32 finally working (with less but better RAM).  Now I can 
get into all sorts of trouble trying to compile on it.  ghostscript, 
lynx...

My laptop pentium only boots with loadlin if I start with Freedos and 
Freedos himem.sys interferes with Xvesa.  I have a choice of a config.sys 
boot menu (to load or not to load himem.sys in order to use linux or DOS) 
or lilo.  I have not used lilo, but assume you get some sort of choice 
between DOS and linux.  What would be the advantages of either method?
If I want to use DOS more than half the time is it faster to use the
config.sys menu method?  Then I would need to reboot to get into linux.
Does the lilo menu get me into DOS about as fast as usual?

Does lilo provide a boot choice or do I need to add something else?  Would 
smart boot manager be helpful here?  (I might put it on anyway so I can 
boot from CD-ROM drive on this computer).

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Joel Adria wrote:
> > I need a specific "make" compiler that will work.
>
> What you need is an ordinary GCC compiler (with any
> additional add-ons that your sourcecode requires).
> The "make" command is part of GCC.
>
> To install GCC from Slackware, you need the following
> packages (as a minimum):
> ------------
> binutils.tgz
> egcs.tgz
> gmake.tgz
> libc.tgz
> linuxinc.tgz
> ------------
> If you are going to compile a kernel, you will need
> bin86.tgz and lx2216.tgz (the kernel sourcecode).
> Compiling kernel modules might also require lx2216.tgz.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
>
>
> AutoMake did not
> > work for me. If you could find one for me that would be fabulous. I did
> > update the kernel to the bare.i from 4.0 on which you recommended. So it
> > should be the modules. Thanks!
> >
> > -Joel
> >
> >
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