ISA Memory hole at 15-16 MB

2000-08-03 Thread Abhishek Khaitan
Hi! While I was going through the Linux Device Drivers book by Allessandro Rubini, I came to know that at the time of 286 computers, ISA memory was mapped between 15 and 16MB for RAM. Since at that time nobody had more than 1-2 MB of RAM, people had no problems accessing the ISA memory. But

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Marc Mutz
Gregory Leblanc wrote: snip 2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from ftp.kernel.org? Put the downloaded kernel in /usr/src. Change to this directory, and move any directory called linux to something else. Then, type tar -Ixvf

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Edward Schernau
Marc Mutz wrote: My tar cannot use bz2-compressed unless used with --use-compress-program=bzip2. so that line sould probably read "bzcat kernel-2.2.16.tar.bz2 | tar xf -". Also the only tar I saw that knows bzip2 is slackware's and it uses the '-y' switch for that. I never saw the '-I'

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Marc , On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Marc Mutz wrote: Gregory Leblanc wrote: snip 2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from ftp.kernel.org? Put the downloaded kernel in /usr/src. Change to this

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: } Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on top of RAID will keep working. It's untested at the moment.

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread James Manning
[Marc Mutz] 2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from ftp.kernel.org? Put the downloaded kernel in /usr/src. Change to this directory, and move any directory called linux to something else. Then, type tar -Ixvf kernel-2.2.16.tar.bz2,

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, G.W. Wettstein wrote: On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: } Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on top of RAID will keep working. It's untested at the moment.

Re: ISA Memory hole at 15-16 MB

2000-08-03 Thread Johannes Niess
Abhishek Khaitan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! While I was going through the Linux Device Drivers book by Allessandro Rubini, I came to know that at the time of 286 computers, ISA memory was mapped between 15 and 16MB for RAM. Since at that time nobody had more than 1-2 MB of RAM, people

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:34:33PM -0400, James Manning wrote: there is no bzip2 standard in gnu tar, so let's be intelligent and avoid the issue by going with the .gz tarball as a recommendation. -z is standard. from the info page from gnu tar 1.13.17: `--bzip2' `-I' This option

Re: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM

2000-08-03 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:55:18PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, G.W. Wettstein wrote: Grab 2.2.15aa1 or 2.2.17pre11aa2, they have completly reliable LVM (I also switch between it and 2.4.x stock without changing anything). It can be used for production. You can find the

Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread James Manning
[Luca Berra] from the info page from gnu tar 1.13.17: `--bzip2' `-I' This option tells `tar' to read or write archives through `bzip2'. As mentioned previously, this is a distro-specific hack. I have it in my tar as well, but trusting it to be part of core GNU tar just because it

RE: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Gregory Leblanc
-Original Message- From: James Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FAQ [Marc Mutz] 2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from ftp.kernel.org? Put the

RE: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Abhishek Khaitan
Can;t we use bunzip2 instead of playing with tar? And after bunzip2, try tar -x kernel-2.2.16.tar ? -Original Message- From: James Manning [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FAQ [Marc Mutz] 2.4. How