On Wednesday 24 March 2004 01:11 am, Margot wrote: > Thanks Charlie, I'll give the new kernel a try once I can get > my internet connection to stay up long enough to download the > file! I have an 'unlimited' monthly-paid dialup package, but > each session is supposedly time-limited to 2 hours - and > unfortunately, I frequently get dropped well before the 2 hour > limit. I can redial immediately of course, but that doesn't > help when I'm trying to download a file the size of a kernel > :-( > > Meanwhile, what does the extra 'S' stand for? > Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Sooooo Boring?
An extra sync just before unmounting the filesystems and rebooting. It's the way I first learned the shutdown procedure "raising skinny elephants is sometimes utterly boring" R S E I S U B > Margot There's an even newer version available just now. 17.6 MB's, should be about one hour on a 56K dialup. I don't know if Thomas' site supports resume. http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1mdk.nosrc.rpm ... here is the changelog.... * Tue Mar 23 12:00:00 2004 Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk - fix specfile rm -rf for ppc(64) and missing 'asm-' in *x86* includes * thanks to Danny for reporting this - remove orinoco 0.14alpha2 patch, it's to buggy at this stage... - drop lirc patch MD07, as it's merged in the updated MD05 - fix ZS99 menu-cleanups patch to actually allow ppc builds (Danny) - new ppc(64) configs (Danny) - map sysrq to powerbutton on power and ibooks (Danny) - acpi 20040311 (Svetljo) - update packet writing support (Svetljo) - support ITE it8212 RAID chip (Svetljo) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American
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