>
> I have it from Tom Oehser himself:
>
> Ah. Known issues. They changed the defaults for mke2fs so that
> filesystems are created with ``sparse-superblocks'' and sometimes with
> ``ext2-filetype'' support. Tomsrtbt-1.7.185 fixed the sparse superblock
> issue, the next one will fix the ext2-filetype one, I am hoping for the
> kernel 2.0.39 to be released someday, if it doesn't I'll just apply the
> patch. For the sparse you can just get 1.7.185, for the ext2-filetype
> you would have to either replace 2.0.37 with a 2.2.x kernel or apply the
> 2.0.39-pre patches and rebuild.
>
It would be easier to include tomsrtbt as an image that could be copied to a
floppy with dd or rawrite rather than going through the disk creation
process. This is what I do on my "modified" Mandrake CD's.
Hoyt
