Now that I have swap space tamed and packages are building, I decided it 
would probably be a good idea to start tweaking my kernel -- especially 
since my TV has limited configurability, and the last few lines of the 
terminal are off-screen. Not surprisingly, this has led me to some 
questions. 

First off, it should be noted that I successfully built a kernel from the 
latest release sources this morning, my only change to GENERIC being the 
addition of one option: 

options         WSEMUL_80x25 

This was a guess at best, since I could find no documentation on how to 
change the terminal size. In any case, it worked, so I guess I guessed 
right. 

What was strange, though, is I noticed that this kernel was just about 
double the size of the one Josh has made available to the world. Is the 
Dreamcast GENERIC that bloated? Or is Josh's that stripped-down? For that 
matter, Josh, where is your kernel config? 

My second thought involves booting from this new kernel. Since I intend to 
play around quite a bit with new kernels -- including from remote locations 
 -- it seems very much impractical to have to burn a new CD for each kernel. 
I know that, when I had a CD set up from the 1999 kernel referenced by the 
HOWTO, the system loaded that kernel, and then got another one (or so I 
assumed) after finding root via NFS. 

What I'm wondering is: first off, am I correct about the second kernel 
loading? If so, is it possible to create a CD that instructs the system to 
go  find a new kernel via NFS and load it? If so, how? 

Alex Kirk