From: ace3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (AA Acero (Tony)) Subject: Re: [Q] fdformat / fdprm / setfdprm (afio) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 15:49:22 GMT
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>Unfortunately, they are relative to 0.99.2, so none of them went in cleanly
>-- I'll put them in by hand tonight, and let you know how they work out.
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Ack! When I went home last night I tried the '-l' option with patch and
all the patches went in cleanly except for a 2 line patch to the Makefile.
After that it was only a matter of
1) Recompiling the kernel (and re-LILOing of course)
2) 'mknod'-ing some new devices in /dev (this is clearly explained in the
patch file)
3) Updating the /etc/fdprm file (this is optional)
4) and rebooting
A couple of warings that occurred to me:
1) Don't use any of the non-standard formats ON A BOOT DISK -- the BIOS
won't know what's going on and you will be UNABLE TO BOOT FROM IT
2) If you use nonstandard formatted disks for backup purposes, make sure
you have a kernel on floppy that understands them. (Scenario: the only
kernel that understands 1.494M 5.25" floppies is on your hard disk, and
your backups are on 1.494M 5.25" floppies. Your hard disk dies. You are
left with no way to read your backups :( )
And that's about it. Thanks to everyone that's been helping me through
e-mail!
Tony
ps I just noticed in c.o.l.a that the porter of afio recommends not using
gzip w/ afio for now. Does anyone know the details? In particular, is it
any particular version(s) of gzip that is causing a problem?
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