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  • From: Mr Christopher Rose <mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Kernel upgrade
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:26:32 -0800 (PST)

Technically, my laptop is a 486DX, but it uses an
AMD-X-5-133SZ processor. Overall, it works rather well
for an older machine. Indeed, the new kernel worked
quite nicely.

Thank you for the help.

Pax,
Christopher


--- 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Mr Christopher Rose wrote:
> >
> > I am contemplating upgrading to the zimage.4dx
> kernel.
>
> Do you have a 486-DX CPU on that system?
>
> > How would I do this?
>
> It depends on whether you are booting with
> loadlin.exe
> or lilo.
>
> loadlin.exe
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Put zimage.4dx in /baslin directory (on the DOS
> partition).
> Edit boot.bat to point at zimage.4dx instead of
> zimage.
>
> lilo
> ^^^^
> Put zimage.4dx in /boot directory (on the Linux
> partition).
> Edit /etc/lilo.conf to point at /boot/zimage.4dx
> instead of
> /boot/zimage. Execute: lilo -v
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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