[Sussex] Re: Setting up a simple home network

[Paul Graydon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace 
> [mailto:matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk] 
> Sent: 30 April 2005 15:01
> To: paul at paulgraydon.co.uk; LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: RE: [Sussex] Re: Setting up a simple home network
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 14:28 +0100, Paul Graydon wrote:
> > > Ummmm..... NFS process, I think.  I haven't modified the 
> kernel in 
> > > any way (re-compiling the kernel ranks quite highly on 
> the List Of 
> > > Things I Must Do Before I Die) so I'm using the default one that 
> > > came with the distro.
> > 
> > Go on.. Give it a whirl.  Its actually a heck of a lot 
> easier than it 
> > sounds. I rolled my first kernel successfully, just over a year ago 
> > now, and since then I've rolled countless ones, tweaks on 
> test systems 
> > and the like.  So far the only time I've messed up was 
> either because 
> > I forgot to run "lilo" after editing my bootloader's script, or 
> > because I didn't follow the instructions for upgrading from a 2.4 
> > kernel to a 2.6 kernel... The latter probably being the stupidest 
> > thing :-)
> 
> Use Grub, you don't have to remember to run it after you've 
> upgraded your kernel! :p
> 
> Matt
> 

I don't know why, but I've never got on with Grub. I mean, its probably
just me, but I always find it just causes me more headaches than LILO.