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On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:04:04PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Glad to see there's finally a mailing list, now I can bug everyone and |
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> not just Daniel personally... ;) |
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> > Can we please have pcmcia support in the default kernel? It's a real |
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> > pain having to install off the CD and then build a new kernel, put it |
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> > on floppy and then move to that to the machine in question. It'll be |
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> > a bigger pain if that laptop ends up being my only working machine. 8( |
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> Hmm, I recall asking if rc3 could have gcc and the kernel source |
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> available from the boot cd - I see the kernel source code is in the |
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> packages directory, but I think there may have been a |
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> mis-communication... I actually meant that gcc be executable from |
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> boot.img so that a kernel can be compiled directly from the boot cd |
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> (onto ramfs presumably, unless you mount anything else) without having |
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> to install anything to a hard disk - I for one would find this very |
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> useful, and I'm surprised I haven't seen any other distros do this. |
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> Comments please |
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I think that's impossible right now, since the kernel sources need to be |
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on a read/write filesystem. However, I believe that this is changing with |
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the official 2.4.0 release (or some time soon), which will allow the sources |
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to reside on the CD. Then, it'll be possible. Otherwise, you'd need ~150Mb |
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of spare RAM just to hold the upacked kernel sources in a RAM filesystem. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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