On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:53:48AM -0700, John Wojnaroski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trying to run Debian off of a USB memory stick (4GB)... working with etch.
>
> Did an install from a DVD and the machine boots just fine.
>
> At this point, just a basic linux machine but have room for the X windows
> package. The linux version is 2.6.8.

Are you sure this is etch? sarge has kernel 2.6.8, etch has 2.6.18

> Tried to extract the .config from the binary, but does not appear it
> was compiled with that option.

What do you mean by that? The config for Debian standard kernels can be
found in /boot

[snip menu.lst and fstab]

> Again, the installed binary works just fine, the version compiled from
> source bombs. Best guess something is wrong/missing in the new
> kernel, but can't find it for the life of me....

Why do you want to recompile the kernel? And what error messages do you
get when it "bombs".

Regards,
Andrei
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