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

Jeff Newmiller vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:47:23 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> 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...

So his SuSE disk is messed up ... but what about the LUGOD cd?

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