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

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Christof Lange wrote:

> 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.

Do you know how to alter initrd.gz with gunzip and then mount -o loop 
initrd /mnt?

> > 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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