On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:51:15 -0500, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>If any of the Mandrake/SuSE/Debian people on the list want to package
>kernels for those distros, let me know, and I'll keep you up to date on
>the status of the patches so we can put out unsupported/unofficial
>kernel packages for them as well.
I am not an official packager,
but I dare to say I am both a power user and an everlasting newbie :-)
I have made a set of 2 floppy disk (minix fs) images (boot 1440 and
root 1600), derived from bare.i and color.gz,
featuring a Slackware 8.0.0 (not yet released) installer.
I like slackware beacuse it is featuring glibc-2.2.3,
binutils-2.11.90.0.15, gcc-2.95.3, so it makes building linux-xfs code
easy: I am a maniac of the "make install"! :)
I have added XFS, so I can choose between ext2, xfs and reiserfs at
install-time.
I have used a Slackware-current on ext2, to build anything from tars
and patches from XFS 1.0.1 testing, so this big kernel is supporting
xfs and many fs.
mkfs.xfs is not linked to any liblvm.
the kernel has no support for debugging.
All of the cmd_tars have to built once you get the system up and
running, beacause only mkfs.xfs is provided and it is avaible only
during installation.
I don't know if this stuff is really useful to the end users,
but I have used it at home and it does seem to work for my bare, intel
based with only 1 ide hd, desktop pc
of course the first kernel is to be installed to the target partition
from the bootdisk and not from the packages ide or scsi. I don't know
if the official modules will be loadable in such kernel...
I mean it is very close to the config.gz of the official bare.i disk,
but it misses System.map.gz and some fs modules are already built in.
I hope it is 100% compatible with an official Slackware-current set.
anyway I hope you will take a look and test and do whatever you want
with this stuff at
http://village.flashnet.it/users/fn048069/files/XFS/
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