[vox-tech] Peters Kernal Update and a Few Questions

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us> quote
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Roland Minden wrote:
> 
> > BTW I was not able to download the Kernal before I lost connectivity :-( I
> > will have to wait on that also.
> 
> ... downloading kernal... um, wouldn't you download the patches, since you
> almost certainly have a kernel source close to the version you
> want?  Major savings in network bandwidth for everyone....
 
no -- he doesn't have clean kernel source code.  it's a funky suse modified
kernel.   he just mentioned that suse's kernel 2.4.10 had ext3 support (which
didn't appear in the official kernels until 2.4.16).

can't patched modified sources...

pete

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