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Here's a little document about how to build and debug the ELKS kernel... it's
probably going to be missing things for quite a while :)  

part 1: Setting up the build environment
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	First, you *must* have the source tar for Dev86-0.0.11.  Because ELKS
changes the syscall interface part, the binaries are not enough (at least not
for now).  Once you have both Dev86 and the latest ELKS sources, you're ready
to start.

	You should untar Dev86 first, and then untar the ELKS files (use 
tar -xvzf _filename_ to unpack the tarfiles).  Beginning with 0.0.53 the 
ELKS tarfile unpacks on top of the Dev86 sources, modifying only the parts
of the library that need changing to accomodate the current ELKS system
call interface.

	Then, build the Dev86 librarys (all the defaults are fine), and
after you install it, go into the elks directory and enter 'make'.  If
all goes well, you will have your first ELKS kernel, configured identically
to the one provided as the bootdisk. 

part 2: Configuring your new ELKS kernel
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	Usually, all you have to change is $/include/linuxmt/config.h to set
the rootdisk device.  For our purposes, set the rootdisk to 0x3c0 so you can
use the second ramdisk as the root device (this makes it fast).  Then rebuild
the kernel.

part 3: MAKE (and run) ELKS FAST!
        (or, better hacking through dosemu)
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	dosemu is extremely useful for shortening the edit/build/run cycle.