CD-RW UDF packet writing in DSL

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: CD-RW UDF packet writing in DSL
started by: softgun

Posted by softgun on Feb. 18 2005,11:46

Is it possible to get this ability to DSL?
This was possible some time ago, as shown in this howto written in 2002
< http://cvs.linuxfromscratch.org/index.c....rev=1.3 >

Posted by stoneguy on Mar. 25 2005,23:48

I see there aren't a huge number of responses here. I've got some interest in this too. I'm intending to replace Vector3.2 with DSL-installed on a dual-boot 64MB P166MMX system, which is used for news, email, surfing, and CDR/CDRW writing. Thank goodness there's still a few surviving distros that will run Firefox in that little RAM. Most distros that started small have outgrown my britches by now.

I had a look at the LFS article. There aren't packet-writing patches for 2.4.26, but there are for 2.4.23.and 2.4.27. Based on READMEs in kernelsource.dsl, the kernel is vanilla (helpful when struggling to refit patches).
It would be a long slog to get it working at my own mediocre level of expertise and underwhelming hardware. But I might take a whack at it once 1.0 goes gold, after I figure out how to slide it onto the partition presently occupied by Vector, without upsetting the Win98 partitions or LILO.

Posted by stoneguy on July 19 2005,00:13

Hmmm. Four months later, and nobody's added onto this thread.

Just for the record, I have indeed upgraded that system from Vector 3.2 to DSL 1.3 frugal. And I still want to accumulate files onto CDRWs.

Posted by stoneguy on Aug. 14 2005,23:38

Fugeddaboudit.

After spending some time googling various kernel archives, it looks like there were unfixable problems in 2.4 that makes packet writing unworkable.

If we ever get a 2.6 based DSL that can run in 64MB RAM I'll try it out.