From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Two suggestions .. comments welcome, please! Date: 9 Sep 1992 00:59:58 GMT
In article <KFOGEL.92Sep8192936@edvac.cs.oberlin.edu> kfogel@edvac.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel) writes:
>I had a couple of thoughts. I may not have any more for a while
>because those about burned me out, so here they are:
>
> It would be a great help to those of use who don't have a disk
>editor for someone to upload pre-edited bootimages to the directories
>that now normally hold bootimages and/or rootimages. We'd need four
>more images, I guess: one for booting partition 1, one for 2, 3, and
>partition 4. If the space can be spared on the ftp sites, it would be
>a great help. I can't afford to buy a disk-editor myself, and I don't
>want to pirate one either. Is there anyone who owns a good editor who
>would be willing to do this for future releases? (Yes, I'm always this
>glib when volunteering other people :-)
This would be a complete waste of disk space. Not only is there
pboot, which even though it is out of date still modifies images fine,
but there are also many, many shareware hex editors out there. ZipZap
is one I use every once in a blue moon.
The best solution would be for someone to write a good pboot
replacement for DOS.
> Also, a beginner's guide to kernel recompilations might be
>nice, with a section on what exactly it entails, why it's useful, and
>some common problems encountered in doing so.
I don't think it's exactly what you had in mind, but Lars Wirzenius'
README for the kernel contains some useful suggestions, and I'm sure
he (and Linus) would be open to suggestions on improvement.
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