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== OS Installation ==

- Boot from the 6.06 LTS server disk
- Default install.  Reformat boot partition.  Make data partition!

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion emacs21

== Sources list ==

- If you get trouble from apt-get because it can't/won't read the Ubuntu disk, or you don't have it anymore, like this:

 Media change: please insert the disc labeled
  'Ubuntu-Server 6.06.1 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060807.1)'

then remove (comment) the line 
 deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 6.06.1 _Dapper Drake_ - Release i386 (20060807.1)]/ dapper main restricted
from /etc/apt/sources.list and do
 apt-get sudo update


== Kernel patch + compile ==

- Get linux sources
- Apply bigphys patch (don't add the -bigphys in the Makefile, do it in the make-kpkg!)
- Follow the instructions here:
 http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu


 sudo rm /bin/sh
 sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
 
 apt-get update
 apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2
 
 tar xjf linux-2.6.18.1.tar.bz2
 ln -s linux-2.6.18.1 linux
 cd /usr/src/linux
 
 bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-2.6.19-rc4.bz2 | patch -p1 --dry-run
 bzip2 -dc /usr/src/patch-2.6.19-rc4.bz2 | patch -p1 
 
 cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
 make menuconfig
 
 make-kpkg clean
 sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-bigphys kernel_image kernel_headers

(Can't use fakeroot in this last step, since the .deb are written to /usr/src.)

== Binary kernel package installation ==

The .deb's that come out of the compilation above are incomplete, be we install them anyway.  They are missing arch/i386/Makefile.cpu, and Modules.symvers.  They might be missing other things too, but MAS really misses those ones.  These have been put into a patch; which must be applied at the end.

The steps are:

# Install the kernel packages



New boot options are: "bigphysarea=8192 acpi=off"

Without acpi=off, loading the DSP driver will crash the system really badly.  This has been observed in at least 2 machines.

== After the new kernel ==

For Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, add repository "Community maintained".