Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 1999 02:04:52 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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Hi David.
On 3 Jun 1999, david parsons wrote:
...and if you had an email address that was decodable, I'd've replied direct to you rather than via this list...
>> Another combination that's near enough impossible to install >> Linux on is a system with one or more EIDE hard drives, but with >> only SCSI CD drives.
> Huh? That seems very bizarre; I know that some early Slackwares > really didn't like it when you had a SCSI disk and IDE CD-ROM > (or visa-versa) and would insist on trying to lilo a boot sector > onto the CD, but I'd think that that would all be solved by now.
I can't speak for Slackware as the only time I tried one, it told be that my Intel P166 cpu was an invalid processor, something I didn't find amusing. Since RedHat 4.1 went on as smooth as silk, I've pretty much stuck with that since...
> Certainly Mastodon doesn't have any trouble doing this, and it's > a distribution I do as a hobby (of course I pretty aggressively > trim away SCSI support <to nothing more than Aha1542,1740,2940 > and friends, BusLogic, NCR810, AMD, and Advansys>, because SCSI > has become Too Damn Expensive for mere mortals.)
I have to admit that's one distribution I hadn't heard of. Sorry.
> Fitting PCMCIA card services onto the install floppy is, on the > other hand, a complete nightmare: libc4 + BASIC + the installer > + insmod + all the pcmcia modules + a diagnostic shell == 10k > larger than a 1.44 floppy. Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh! A hybrid card > services stack, where tcic.o, i8<mumble>.o, and pcmcia_core.o > are built into the kernel, but all the drivers and cs layers are > left in userspace might solve this problem, at least until the > next major release bloats up the kernel by 100k :-(
That I can certainly understand.
Best wishes from Riley.
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