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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > when he does ($300 for one course).  Have you compiled just a module?  I

> 
> I never tried to compile just a module - apart from letting vmware compile
> its own modules, for which they provide a script that pretty much
> automates it for you.  I have a friend who is more adept at compiling than
> me whom I once watched trying (unsuccessfully) to compile a kernel module.
> >From this, I gather that it's not for the uninitiated.  I've always
> compiled modules as part of a kernel compile - "make modules."  I can
> probably help you get your USB card reader working under DOS, yes.  At
> least mine works fine (can't format, but can read and write) under DOS.
> 
> James
> _______________________________________________

We don't have a card reader, or even a card, yet, just doing research.  
Can you tell me how much disk space the USB and card reader software for
DOS occupies?  This might be a simpler way to use a USB camera for
traveling than linux, which needs two disks to boot rather than the one
for DOS (on which we also keep our photopc download software for our
serial-cable camera but I hear not all new computers have serial ports 
now).  We bike so don't want to take our own computer along.  And I don't 
think BL2 will fit on floppy disk with a much larger kernel (Sw81 has a 
usb kernel) nor do I know how to compile the USB modules for it or how 
large they would be.  Or whether they would even fit into a ramdisk.

Not that it would not be interesting to try BL2 with USB on a desktop 
computer some day, via modules or later kernel.

I don't try to use the same tool for all jobs.

Are you doing this with FreeDOS?