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From: James Craig <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Installing on an 4 MB A5000
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Russell King - ARM Linux Admin wrote:

> Dickon Hood writes:
> > : On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > : Here's a serious thought. The Slackware installer works in 4M on the ix86
> > : architecture - anyone feel like recompiling Slack for the ARM?
> >
> > Would be nice...  IMHO, RH is too SysVile.
>
> >From what I remember of Slackware, it was worse than RH.  Last time I looked at
> Slackware, it had all sorts of problems *because* it wasn't intelligent enough
> with the init daemon.  For instance, when you boot, it would mount the local
> filesystems, turn on swap etc before entering a run level.  Then, if you shutdown
> to single user mode, it would turn swap off and unmount all filesystems.  Then
> when returning to a run level, it totally and utterly forgot that it had unmounted
> the filesystems.
It's also so nice and uncomplicated that it causes no trouble to 99% of
people. BTW, that bug is one I haven't encountered, and I've been using
Slackware since 1993. :)
> The RH init style may be SysVile-like, but at least *it works* and it is
> *extendable*.
Um, slack isn't non-extendable just because you have to add stuff to the
end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local occasionally. And, of course, it *DOES* work. :)
> However, maybe Slackware has improved since I last looked at it.
Probably. Slackware is so simple in it's setup though that it would be
hard to improve on.
> > IIRC, from talking to Simes, it is an ADFS problem (not specifically
> > Filecore) which was fixed with the 'Large filecore' released in Risc OS 3.6
> > (not to be confused with the 'Large filecore' to be released with RPCII).  I
> > bought a drive which wouldn't work under the older one; AFAICR we bodged
> > around it by using a pull-[up|down] resistor across two pins.  Very dodgy;
> > don't try this at home ;-)
>
> Indeed, some drives (notably Western Digital drives) to something very silly -
> if you tell the drive to disable interrupts, it will !!assert!! it's interrupt
> line.  This would then cause RiscOS to hang.
>
> I'm not certain, but I think that Linus may use this to it's advantage when
> resetting the drive... ;)
Pass. I wouldn't know. The last time I tried writing IDE device drivers, I
managed to send the drive a format command instead of a verify one and
totaled the first 2 tracks. I'll get around to doing them again, but not
until I have a spare hard-drive I don't mind losing everything on. :)

-- James Craig
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