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Recompile your kernel for a perfect fit

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 195.189.216.34] on August 16, 2007 10:13 AM
Unless you want to explain how to make a new initrd for your new kernel, I'd suggest noting and stressing it might be a good idea to compile in the drivers for your boot disk as well as the fs. Given your intended audience (and the hardware they'll probably have) unchecking PCI is not a good idea. Unchecking (E)ISA on the other hand ... In networking, you can uncheck tokenring stuff, hippi, ipx etc. Ip6tables support is risky if you don't know what you're doing (it opens you up for attack thru ip6, if you don't configure ip6tables to block you), so unchecking ipv6 is a no-hassle recommendation.
finally, if you or your distro prepared things properly, you might 'make install' the kernel without having to manually edit bootmgr files ...

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