[1809] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: cutter-john
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Sep 21 13:54:39 1997
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 21 Sep 1997 13:34:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 23:03:49 -0400"
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Linux 2.0.18 bores me. It's too well-tested and stable. I was going
> to install RedHat 4.2 on cutter-john, but then I decided that this
> machine is simply too important as a generic good fast workstation for
> me to go around installing unreleased Linux-Athena releases on a whim.
> So instead, I updated the kernel to 2.0.30 and installed just the
> afs-3.3a package from small-gods.
You forgot to compile in support for the loopback block device driver,
which allows filesystem images to be mounted. I just compiled and
installed a version with said support.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
