Re: mu TECH : a little of everything...

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 22:10:48 CEST


On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:59:43PM +0000, Guillaume Cornet nicely wrote:
> Danke Sebastian, for reminding me the academic regulations, but I
> don't want to install any software on these computers, I just want to
> drop some gzipped loop devices (I can call them "Cognitive
> psychology.pdf" or "Face recognition.pdf" if I want, no ? And Windows
> will draw the little icon Adobe Acrobat next to them !) in my home
> directory ;-]

Demoniac Guillaume! (but, do not use "space" in the filename :-) )
You agree with you: to put a single (maybe, big) file with loopfilesystem
in it on a Windows machine cannot be considered an installation,
but simply *hard-disk's usage*.

> But I don't know how I could compile a single module in a 4Mb
> ramdisk. I suppose it is possible. If it is, I will try to compile
> the ipx module from a 2.0.39. If I have well understood, I just have
> to give gcc the suitable header files...? Should it be possible to
> insmod -f it into a running 2.0.36? (I hope my question is not too
> stupid.)
>

No, it's not stupid (perhaps, you show a not trivial knowledge about
Linux). Sometimes the -f works, if kernel are not so much different.

Michele

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