[Wolves] Floppy discs

[Chris Owen]

Forgive my ignorance  - but is this simply to allow the saving of a word
processor document to floppy disk?  If so, then god help non-technical
users like me!

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Old Dan [mailto:dan@dannyboy.dnsalias.org]=20
Sent: 15 September 2003 16:56
To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Floppy discs

Aquarius wrote:
> Old Dan spoo'd forth:
>>>Oo! http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/
>>>OTOH, it's a bleedin' kernel patch, and that machine isn't running a
>>>custom kernel; it's running a stock distro kernel installed through
>>>apt. Damn. I hate compiling kernels.
>>
>>As long as you're running kernel 2.4.19, 2.4.20 or 2.4.21, ...
>>Apt installing kernel-patch-2.4-supermount-ng should do you quite=20
>>nicely, methinks...
>=20
> Yeah, but I still have to compile the kernel, and I really don't
wanna.
> One of the main reasons is that I don't know how to say "configure
this
> newly downloaded kernel source with the options that my currently
> running kernel has", so that downloading a new kernel, compiling it,
> and running it, will change nothing at all.

But don't the kernel-headers packages contain the config files for the=20
precompiled kernels?

::looks::

Yes, yes they do - they have the .config - so - yuck - yeah, what you'd=20
have to do is download the kernel source for the generic kernel version=20
you have, download the headers package for the specific stock kernel you

have, copy across the .config file, download and run the patch,=20
configure the specific supermount option, compile, rinse and repeat...

Yuck.  It'd work, though, and by the looks of it it'd be worth it.

Or maybe I'm just a masochist.  ;)

--=20
Dan


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