I'd like to see if anyone has any answers to these questions.

1. Does 0.97 support an ext fs as root? (I'm pretty sure it does, but
before I do something drastic like re-mkfs, I want to be *very* sure)
2. I got my utilities from the sc.tamu.edu release (based on mcc-interim
0.96c, it is very good by the way, and makes installing Linux, GCC
2.2.2, X, and kernel sources reasonably easy). Will ext fs cause these
routines to break? E.g. did they use the old stat() or readdir() system
calls? I don't think so, but need to be sure.
3. Where do I get the (correct versions of) the mkefs/efsck programs for
the ext fs?
4. Does the ext fs support separate atime, mtime, and ctime? It would be
nice if it did.
5. What's the chance of a newer version of ext fs being incompatible
with the current one?
6. Where is the mount which supports mounting ms-dos partitions?
(please no flames, I'm mostly using ms-dos for networking, only because
I have to :|)
7. If I have 4 Megs main memory, and a program tries to malloc 5 Megs,
will it work provided there is sufficient swap? Or can a program only
malloc as much physical memory as there is? Will any programs (or
combinations thereof) refuse to run on such a system, even with swapping
on and sufficient swap space, that would work on a system with more
memory?
8. Where is/how does one get the tcp/ip stuff? How stable is it?
(Last I heard it was in high alpha test phase. Tcp/ip has recently
gotten more important to me now that I recently found a device driver
for Token-Ring. Thank goodness! I hope it ports well.)
9. Is the ps/top not showing the full command name for swapped out
processes problem fixed in 0.97? Or is it a configuration problem on my
setup? What happens is all swapped out processes read as (processname)
without the usual name which includes command args. I assume ps would
have to read the swap device to do this. Would making /dev/swap (via
mknod or a link to my swap partition's device file) help?
10. Can we have a real single-user mode? My suggestion is, assuming it
is possible, is to have the boot program pass options to the kernel,
which would pass them to init, or be able to boot a kernel which would
start init single-user.
11. How does one use the sysv-compatible init in admutils? I couldn't
RTFM, because I couldn't find any man pages. How does one make it go
single-user?
12. What is the mailing-list address? (I've read so many Linux FAQ's I
don't know which one/one's its in). How does on subscribe/post? It would
be nice if some one could gate the mailing lists to newsgroups. I
probably could get it done locally (mailing-list --> bboard), but, IMHO,
it would be better if the whole net had the choice of distribution
format.

Sorry for such a long list and possibly some FAQ's, but I've waited
until now to see if the information was already being discussed on the
net. Maybe posting a current FAQ every week might help a little in
enlightening us.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Linux is a great OS. Keep up the good work! Hopefully soon enough will
be implemented and stable for Linux to go the next big step, to version
1.0. I'd say once we have full networking and the fs taken care of, and
everything packaged together uniformly like the sc.tamu.edu release, and
worked out the few remaining minor bugs we will be pretty much there.
I'm glad the version numbering wasn't done hastily, like in the case of
Coherent 1.0. Anyway, speaking of bugs, there doesn't seem to be too
many, the only one that really bit me was that setterm doesn't fix the
aftermath of control-N.