On Tue Jun 22 1999 at 20:54, Tom Oehser wrote:
> Soon I will upload either 1.7.14? or 1.8.? with kernel 2.0.37,
> and I added /dev/random and /dev/urandom and /dev/sr1, are there
> any other *easy* changes anyone would like while I'm at it?
I don't know about the kernel changes (this has never been any sort of
issue for me), but I'm suspicious about the current versions of
mkdosfs and fdisk that are being used in the image, especially wrt
FAT32 partitions.
I've had recurrent failures trying to get FAT32 partitions created
with these utilities in tomsrtbt to be recognised by windoze, to the
point where I no longer trust them. I've also had fdisk do weird
things with partitions tables on drives on the secondary IDE bus.
If there's any possibility of upgrading the versions that are being
used to the lastest and greatest stable versions, then that would be a
GoodThing(tm) :)
I'm running RH5.x and RH6.x systems with glibc2.x libraries. I'm
unable to rebuild libc5 binaries, or I would do this myself.
Also, there was an announcement in COLA about a month ago about new
versions of mkdosfs and dosfsck. They also have a new maintainer, and
a new home:
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools
Cheers
Tony
