On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:59:29AM -0400, Steve Haavik wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Did you run "ifconfig -a"? I'm pretty sure I put this in there. Which > > tftp images are you using? > > OK, I checked and > http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/tftpboot-small.img > doesn't have is compiled in either. > > >From the kernel-config in that directory it looks like it's compiled as a > module. Are there any other images I can try?
Are you willing to do a bit of hacking? 1) Download root.bin and sun4u/drivers.tgz from above URL. 2) Do this: # zcat root.bin > root.image # mount -o loop root.image /mnt # mkdir modules # cd modules # tar zxf ../drivers.tgz # cp lib/modules/..../<modname>.o /mnt/lib/modules/ # cd .. # rm -rf modules # umount /mnt # gzip -c9 root.image > root.bin # rm root.image drivers.tgz Ok. Now you have a root.bin with the module you need. Once you boot with this root.bin, you can switch to another console (or exec shell from the menu) and do "insmod /lib/modules/<modname>.o", then continue with the installation. How do you use this new improved root.bin? Once of two ways. If you have a sparc machine, download the sun4u/vmlinux from the above URL and do: # tilo root.bin vmlinux Or, if you can figure out how to burn it to a CD and use it. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/