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- Path: sparky!uunet!nic.unh.edu!unhtel!morwyn!forrie
- From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: Potential kernel mods...
- References: <1992Aug17.162950.883@uts.cc.wayne.edu| <1992Aug18.021335.391@ceilidh.beartrack.com> <1992Aug18.170421.8951@squid.tram.com>
- Organization: Vision Graphics
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:14:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.051415.22827@morwyn.uucp>
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- In article <1992Aug18.170421.8951@squid.tram.com| jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
- | In article <1992Aug18.021335.391@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.)) writes:
- |
- | Please, don't waste your time doing this. The two unix files are
- | *not* the same. Well, they're kind of close.
- |
- | The **BIG** difference is the values of the symbols rootdev, pipedev,
- | (and swapdev?). Right now, they are set for the hard disk. On the
- | floppy version, they have been changed so that it uses only the
- | floppy.
- |
- | The easy way to fix this is with adb. However, it was so long ago
- | that I did this that I cannot for the life of me remember how to do
- | the change.
- [ ... ]
-
- Or, you could take the simple route and download the pertinent
- files from osu-cis:
-
- kern.cpio.Z and conf.cpio.Z
-
- These are kernel objects released from AT&T, and it allows you to
- configure the kernel, which also has a #define for creating
- a floppy UNIX.
-
-
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