** Reply to message from Bruce LaZerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:21:24 -0400 >>There are many patches that are part of a "normal" Mandrake kernel, such as >>supermount, firewire, and raid patches (170 in all). >That pretty much means I can forget about upgrading smbfs in the kernel while >keeping the rest of the Mandrake installation functional. Well I went ahead and did it anyway and the results are not tooooo bad. Downloaded the 2.2.17 kernel and 2.2.18pre9 patch. Configured the make (perhaps leaving out too much stuff, see below) amd re-compiled. Put the bzImage on floppy and booted to floppy. Booted fine except for the following problems: 1) supermount is missing. Anybody know where I can get a supermount patch? 2) USB interface modprobe error message during boot. Since I don't use USB I didn't include any of the relevant code. Maybe I should put it back in the base code? 3) CD-RW is not detected during boot up and I get a menu asking me whether to keep trying to find it at next boot, or not. Could this be a supermount problem as well? Or perhaps because I stripped out all the SCSI code? It's an ATAPI CD-RW but aren't these translated into pseudo-scsi devices somewhere? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Bruce By the way, I've been told in a newsgroup that both Slackware and Debian distributions use only plain vanilla kernels and official ftp.kernel.org patches. As far as I can tell, only Slackware provides KDE (& Gnome). So if you need to be at the bleeding edge and apply patches, maybe one of those two distributions would be a better choice than Mandrake. Frankly, if it weren't for this stinking smbfs problem (and maybe the kde+java+mouse problem), I would be perfectly happy with Mandrake's 7.1. But even after all that trouble, the patch didn't fix the smbfs problem! __________________________________________ Bruce LaZerte Grandview Lake in Muskoka Ontario, Canada
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