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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Steven, how small did you manage to compile 2.4
> > when you were experimenting with it?
>
> I don't remember exactly.  Slackware has a lowmem 2.4
> at 522kb, but it doesn't do networking (doesn't even
> do X IIRC).  My 2.4 kernel (with similar capabilities
> to the BL3 kernel) was closer to 600kb.

That is much smaller than the SW10.0 generic kernel (1.4-1.5MB) so I 
suppose it does a lot more things which I don't need.  If I knew how I 
would compile an even more basic 2.6.9 kernel - don't need X or networking 
just to burn a CD and I could include the needed modules in it.

Would it be worth posting your 2.4 kernel in case people really needed it 
to run certain programs, or wait until some need comes up?

Maybe all I need to compile is one of the cdrom modules.  I will try to 
figure this out.  Something needed patching.  But I recall last time I 
tried to compile a module it did not work and things crashed rather badly 
(but were fixable).  Winbond ethernet module.

Has anyone on our list used DOS cdrecord or cdroast?  Is so, are they as 
complicated as the linux versions?  I have no idea how I would load a 
module in DOS - as a driver in config.sys?  Would I need scsi emulation 
and aspi driver?

I hear FreeDOS does not yet have a usable CD-ROM driver.

I discovered that I have been running linux in 64MB RAM on a second 
computer, also with 256MB RAM installed.  Would Ken's program for clearing 
vectors keep this from happening?  The other computer seemed to boot 
faster once I added mem=256M to the boot batch file.  Also, might it fix 
the problem of Xvesa not working in 8-bit color?  Has anyone got Xvesa 
working with lilo and 8-bit color?  Xvesa -listmodes lists 256 color modes 
which implies they should work.

> Cheers,
> Steven

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org