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[Christof Lange <cce.zizkov AT volny.cz>]

On  4 Jan 07 at 16:51, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

>Sindi just uploaded http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/bzimagl8.431
>About 630K.

Christof has just downloaded and tested it with the 4MB RAM drive and 
it seems to work. Test with teh 8MB RAM are without success so 
far. Obviously because I am not yet able to create a clean initrd.gz 
file.

>
>Same as la except:
>Removed hermes and joliet and wireless support (but left networking and
>parport and ppp)

Is joliet something that will be needed for CDs? 

>Made the cd-rom drivers built-in instead of modular.

Running the script to load them anyway fortunately does not crash the 
system. 

>Added all the scsi modules needed for CD-R's and now it works with: 
>scsi_mod, sc_mod (for USB-storage), sr_mod, sg, ide-scsi, except that on one
>of two computers only BL2 works with ide-scsi and BL3 segfaults. BL3 also
>complains about the internal hdd (IDE zip drive) during boot.  We had the
>same problem of segfault on one other computer, but I do not recall if it
>had a zip drive.  Why would BL2 work better with ide-scsi (this kernel on
>computer with zip drive) and usbcore (sm kernel on a computer with onboard
>video using system RAM - sm kernel had hotplug=n and BL3 gave an error
>message about hotplug)?

I am happy to leave the test with BL3 environments to others. 

>Changed RAMdisk size to 8192 from 4096.
>
>If this works, I can recompile with all but ide-scsi built-in, or should I
>build that in also?  scsi_mod makes the kernel much larger but you need it
>for CD burning and USB storage.
>
>If ide-scsi is built in, the CD burner cannot be used as hd, only sd.

As soon as I get a working 8MB RAM disk, I will try to burn a CD.

>> In DOS two of the sticks cannot be loaded with the common drivers.
>> And only _one_ USB device can be loaded at the same time, that
>> means in each boot session.
>
>You tried to plug in two USB devices at the same time?
>I know you need to reboot whenever you plug in a device.

The only reason why after more than one year I get involved into 
Linux again is that I want to look at more than one device at the 
same time and exchange them without rebooting. The two scripts I sent
to the BL list work as follows: 

- insert one or two devices
- type just u: in order to mount the devices
- use the devices in mc
- type :u or :u X in order to mount one or both devices
- exchange one or both devices
- type u: in order to mount the attached devices

etc. 

This way you can use up to five different devices. You can plug 
them in plug them out, use others in between and plug them in 
for a second time. They will always be mounted at the same mount 
point. 

Christof

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