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- 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.
-
- The RH init style may be SysVile-like, but at least *it works* and it is
- *extendable*.
-
- However, maybe Slackware has improved since I last looked at it.
-
- > 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... ;)
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