Re: Instal quirks

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:03:18AM -0700, Alexander Guy wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:50:55PM -0600, W . Suika Roberts wrote:
>> I just went through the archive for the last couple months, and
>> have a couple nits to pick.

>> -resizing the kernal image space to 512k is a really annoying default,
>> since it is almost impossible to build a new kernel that fits in
>> 512k.
> I think it's better than wasting another 256k, which most users have
> no need for.

256k isn't enough for me to complain about when compared to the hassle
of copying my root filesystem up to a host system, repartitioning, and
moving everything back at the new offset . . .

Explaining that that is what one is doing there would be good, so that
one can make one's own choice before one's been fixing things for a few
days.

>> I tried ~8 times over two days before I built a couple that were
>> small enough, but wouldn't boot, gave up on building a new kernel,
> [snip]
> Did you check out the Familiar config in handhelds.org CVS:
> linux/kernel/arch/arm/def-configs/familiar

Nope -- it was there, but I sure didn't see it.

I thought it had to do with the kernel not understanding the partion
map, and it looks like I was right :/

[snip]
> Try:
> cvs status -v someFileName
> A good place to start is the root level Makefile or README.

OK, I'll try it.

>> -Could we not link iv to vi? It made me worry when basic things just
>> didn't work. (I had a 20k dos vi that worked better :/ )
> Sweet, where is it?

Had. I don't know if I still have a copy anywhere, but I found it on a
system at Tulane, and copied it.

Binary only, and limited, but better than edit . . .

Thanks,
        Suika

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