fdutils - Utilities for configuring, debugging, and sending commands to the Linux floppy driver HOWTO

ChangeLog


Jan 26, 2006	- Added note about kernel headers
		- Only run removepkg when it exists
		- Added gpasswd example of adding a user to group floppy
Nov 3, 2005	- Updated Slack note for 10.2
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- Run chown -R root:root on the source dir when $UID = 0
		- Added patch to skip setfdprm
		- Make sure the user that owns the source directory has
		  write access to the files in it
		- Added replacement installation instructions instead of
		  using 'make install' (to avoid tex, which you may not have
		  installed)
Mar 25, 2005	- 5.4 -> 5.5
		- Updated Slack note for 10.1
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, fileutils/coreutils links
		- root.root -> root:root
Dec 27, 2004	- Updated patch from 20030718 to 20040228
		- Updated Slack note for 10.0
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
Feb 3, 2004	- Added prerequisites
		- Added note about what version comes with Slack 9.0 and 9.1
		- Added note about lex
Aug 7, 2003	- Updated the patch from the 20021121 version to the
		  20030718 version
		- Create ~/installed as 0700
		- Added backup of /etc/mtools.conf
		- Fixed a typo in the part that applies the patch
		- Added note that setfdprm comes with util-linux too
		- Added running the script that creates the dev files
Apr 18, 2003	- Modernized the howto
		- Added note about tex
Mar 11, 2003	- First entry

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