On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:20:40 -0500, John
<they.need.your.spam@ready.verisign.com> wrote:
> Simon wrote:
>>>1. What is the "_RR_MOVE" directory in Slak91d2?
>
>> It's not on there when I look. What are you using to view the CD
>> contents? Does that support RockRidge extensions? I suspect it
>> doesn't, which would also explain why the filenames appear in upper
>> case.
>
> CD's viewed both directly,

What do you mean by "directly" here? Do you mean in Windows Explorer
or did you mount the CD under GNU/Linux to view the contents?

> and via a Virtual_CD image, under Win2K. See
> below for CD listings viewed under Windows.

I suspect that doesn't support RockRidge extensions (I know that
WinImage didn't when I was using that).

> At the moment, I've also got a box booted from that Slackware CD, and
> then I viewed the CD (/CDROM), the normal directory and file names
> appear, so I gather full Rock Ridge support is not present under Win2k.

That's correct, to the best of my knowledge.

> Interestingly, the entire _RR_MOVE directory disappears as well, along
> with all the apparent modules.

I think someone's already explained that better than I can.

> However, I checked the "kernel-modules"
> package you mentioned, and it ALSO contains the e1000.o module (the one
> I particularly wanted), so apparently the problem is simply that Slack /
> Hotplug / whatever is not recognizing the NIC. I assume manually
> installing and loading the module should fix that.

I'd have thought that it should do, as long as the e1000 module works
with your card, although the extent of my experience with hotplug
consists of "removepkg hotplug".

> Thanks!

No problem.


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