Newbie : GCC, Monolithic kernel

[tom]

Greets list;  This is a long message

For a lot of you, this is a nothing chore; for me, I've never
done this before, and I apologize for wasting your valuble 
bandwidth;

I'm playing with a COL WS 3.1.1. edition for the time now;  I 
will be dropping this distro, since it appears Caldera is 
changing focus from desktops to servers.


Firstly;

I think I upgraded the compiler correctly.  However, I cannot 
find the tests for the gnu gcc version 2.95.3 .  I would
like to test to make sure.

[ I finally got enough time to dive head in this weekend, and
  gave it a try. ]


The site documention is somewhat circular, and I get more 
frustrated the more and more I read it. I cannot find the
link from the site docs. [ either that, or i'm trying to hard ]

And please, if testing this is as simple as 

]# make -k test

I didn't get that impression from the onsite documentation.

I was wondering, where can I find the compiler test suites for
gnu gcc 2.95.3?  A hypertext link to the any ftp site
would help me emmensely :)



Second;

I'm jumping from the default kernel version 2.4.13-dist from
Caldera, to 2.4.19.  I've read the Docs, and I think I linked
the libraries from the new compiler and the existing libraries
on the COL correctly. 

I wanted to perform as little work as possible to perform
a re-compile.

I decided to re-compile a monolithic kernel.  I have some 
Scsi emulation I must perform ( CD-R, Zip disk ), and I wanted 
to know if a COL default kernel config and some kernel parameters
passed by GRUB is enough?

Or, do I take the default config, and alter it to eliminate the
references for a initrd.gz file instead?  Would the kernel be able
to boot by not 'seeing' a ramdisk, or do the kernel parameters still
have to be passed in order to do this?



I know a lot of you have this down to a art, so I decided to ask
a few experts :)



 
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