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a.bertram <a.bertram@elmshorn.netsurf.de> wrote:
> Apple-User frage ich, ob es auch wieder so etwas wie einen Sytemordner gibt.

Not really. The system folder on Macintosh contained the operating
system (the system file --- the operating system NOT contained in the
EPROM), which also contained some configuration information, and then the
system tools.

Under Linux, in general the kernel (operating system core) would be
located in /vmlinuz  (compressed version). As someone pointed out earlier,
doing a make zlilo (from the kernel source directory /usr/src/linux)
will overwrite the old kernel. This is NOT recommended. I recommend to
edit the system boot configuration file /etc/lilo.conf (you know if
you use LILO if, just after the PC BIOS initializes the system, Linux
is loaded with ``LILO''). You should add a section *before* the old
section, with other names:

Before:


# LILO Konfigurations-Datei
# Start LILO global Section
append="auto"
boot=/dev/hda
#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.
linear
read-only
prompt
timeout=50
vga = normal    # force sane state
# End LILO global section
image = /vmlinuz
  root = /dev/hda1
  label = linux
# Linux bootable partition config ends

After:

# LILO Konfigurations-Datei
# Start LILO global Section
append="auto"
boot=/dev/hda
#compact        # faster, but won't work on all systems.
linear
read-only
prompt
timeout=50
vga = normal    # force sane state
# End LILO global section
image = /vmlinuz-new
  root = /dev/hda1
  label = linux-new
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# End LILO global section
image = /vmlinuz
  root = /dev/hda1
  label = linux
# Linux bootable partition config ends

Thus you should not to make zlilo, but make zImage and then
mv arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz-new

I use that script, indeed:

#! /bin/sh

VERSION=2.0.35

(cd /usr/src; rm linux; ln -s linux-$VERSION linux)

make zImage modules modules_install

mv arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz-$VERSION
cp System.map /System.map-$VERSION
chmod 444 /*-$VERSION
cp /System.map-$VERSION /System.map
/sbin/lilo
sync

> Existiert etwas Verwandtes auch bei Linux? Oder denke ich da v�llig falsch?
> F�r Anregungen, aber auch Web-Seiten, die Anf�ngern die Grundz�ge von Linux
> erkl�ren , w�re ich sehr sehr dankbar.

Ok. The best you should do is
   1. try to get your hands on the SuSE manual. It's very complete.
   2. You could try the french UNIX guide I wrote a few years ago
         http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/unixguide.html
   3. There are many documentations in the /usr/doc/ hierarchy in the
      SuSE-Linux (provided those were installed)

If you need to install new packages (e.g. documentation), you need
the CD-ROM (obviously) and you need to become root, through ``su''
or through the root-xterm menu/window. When you are there, type
yast, and there there are quite obvious menus, especially
if you have the manual.