On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Will the new kernel build impact on my X configuration? I know that my kernel has the NVdriver module installed (the one that came with X 4.1.0), but I'm concerned as to whether if I rebuild the kernel from source, it will require a new installation of X?
No just build a new kernel, when you reboot your machine XDM and X will not work, just grab the NVIDIA drivers from http://www.nvidia.com and make sure you have them in /usr/src before you do all this. When you have built the new kernel and have it installed etc. you then build the drivers and they get put in the correct places etc. you will then be able to start X again.
I have a separate /home partition, on a separate drive (hdb) to where / resides (hda).
I did this incase hda fails.However, as I understand it, even if I make a user with the same name and password and mount /home to the old /home partition, I will still not be able to access any of the files due to permissions- am I right?
Nope you are wrong ;) if you look in /etc/passwd for your username you will see it is followed by a number, now this is your UID no. this is what is important. If you screw it up all you have to do when you rebuild the machine is make sure your new user account has the same UID no. or you can use the chown command as root to get access back to the files when you have rebuilt the machine.
HTH Adam