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

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> > Yep, with your kernel that uses the 2.4.31 stuff. But I guess your kernel is
> > smaller?  than the 2.4.31 one that the DSL developers sort-of don't like
> > (they went back to 2.4.26 after some objections from users)  because it
> > doesn't support some older hardware?
>
> That would make sense. That would also explain why Sindi experienced
> problems with a 720K floppy disk.
I am not sure what that problem was - things got sort of confused, maybe I 
changed fd without unmounting, but I was at one point unable to umount the 
fd or the hd and had to reboot.

> I noticed that Debian has created their own forks of 2.4.27 and 2.6.8,
> among other kernel versions. They appear to be attempting to stabilize
> the kernel source code. Their 2.6 kernel bzImage is 1MB, less than
> one-third the size of the Slackware 2.6-testing bzImage. It has about
> the same functionality as a 600K 2.4 kernel.
>
> David