Re: [PARPORT] RedHat rant - late followup


Thomas Good (tomg@nrnet.org)
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:15:32 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 grant@torque.net wrote:

> Returning to Slackware, you should be able to build a 2.0.36 kernel
> with support for PARIDE, pcd and bpck, and make a boot disk from that.
> I don't know if Pat's root image contains the PARIDE device nodes, so
> you may need to mknod /dev/pcd0 yourself from a root shell.
>
> If you have a channel to Pat, I'd be happy to work with him to sort out
> any problems he has with PARIDE, and to test his installers. Unfortunately,
> I've never succeeded in making e-mail contact with him.

Grant and Alan -

Thanks fellas. I'll mention this to Patrick. He has a laptop and has
indicated this is something he'd like to have in slackware...

Cheers,
Tom

    ----------- Sisters of Charity Medical Center ----------
                    Department of Psychiatry
                              ----
 Thomas Good, System Administrator <tomg@q8.nrnet.org>
 North Richmond CMHC/Residential Services Phone: 718-354-5528
 75 Vanderbilt Ave, Quarters 8 Fax: 718-354-5056
 Staten Island, NY 10304 www.panix.com/~ugd
                              ----
 Powered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 / Perl 5.004 / DBI-0.91::DBD-PG-0.69

-- To unsubscribe, send mail to: linux-parport-request@torque.net --
-- with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. --



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Wed 30 Dec 1998 - 10:18:43 EST