explanation. More doc needed, but not hard to do, if you want to.
A big hand to Martin Renters for the netboot program !
Anybody want to compete on who can "make world" in the shortest
amount of time ? I have 127 i486DX2/66 and 5 P60's I can use
now. And 3 times 66 Gb file servers to support it... :->
Anyway, NFS will be standard in the GENERIC kernel now, so that
people can use the bin-tarball to set up shop.
A word of wisdom, don't do this:
| cd /usr/bin
| for i in *
| do
| cp $i /tmp/a
| gzip -9 < /tmp/a > $i
| done
It will compress files with multiple links several times. do it this way:
| cd /usr/bin
| for i in *
| do
| gunzip -f < $i > /tmp/a
| gzip -9 < /tmp/a > $i
| done
This is part of a bug fix from Kirk McKusick to work around problems in FFS
related to the blkno of a 64bit offset not fitting into an int. Note the
proper solution would be to deal with 64bit block numbers, but doing this
would require sweeping changes; some other day perhaps.
Submitted by: Marshall Kirk McKusick
that this is intended for use only in floppy situations and is done at
the sacrifice of performance in that case (in ther words, this is not the
best solution, but works okay for this exceptional situation).
Submitted by: John Dyson
One of the alpha testers (ETO, Toshihisa <eto@osl.fujitsu.co.jp>)
of my APM driver sent me a very small patch to if_ze.c for using IBM
PCMCIA Ethernet card II. There are only a few difference between
Ethernet card I and II. So we can use them both with this patch. It
also includes a patch for PCIC of ThinkPad 230Cs (As long as I
remember, this model is available in Japan only. But it is very
popular subnote in Japan).
Submitted by: hosokawa
so i hope i've finally removed all the occasions where the driver
got stuck when there's no floppy in the drive.
Also attemmpting to omit the error mesage for ``recalib failed''
for the first time, since people tend to be confused about this.
From now on, >all< swapdevices must be activated with "swapon".
If you havn't got it, add this line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0
ne sec
Reason:
We want our GENERIC* kernels to have a large selection of swap-devices, but
on the other hand, we don't want to use a wd0b as swap when we boot of a
floppy. This way, we will never use a unexpected swapdevice. Nothing else
has changed.
drivers have a chance to change their IRQ before it is checked.
This was implemented in revision 1.21 and broken in revision 1.26.
Drivers that can change their IRQ should probably be configured
with "irq ?".
