Linux Journal: Post-install configuration of Debian GNU/Linux on a Dell Latitude C800

Dec 20, 2001, 22:12 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Salman Ahmed)

[ Thanks to Salman Ahmed for this link. ]

In the followup to my first article (which discussed installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Dell Latitude C800), I now discuss post-install configuration of the laptop including:

• setup, configuration, and compilation of a 2.4.x kernel using Debian's make-kpkg scripts
• setting up sound
• setting up a VESA FrameBuffer console
• converting Ext2 partitions to Ext3

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