On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 07:01, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > It should be pretty much exactly like running Eiger off a HDD or flash. > One > > > added benifit to Dachstein: it already has support for boot-time loading > of > > > modules (see the SCSI section of my HDD HOWTO). This means you can > simply > > > put modules in /boot/lib/modules, edit /boot/etc/modules, backup root, > and > > > support whatever wacky hardware you want to boot from... > > > > I noticed that on the CD the /lib branch is uncompressed and so under > > the ISO9660 type the file names can be longer than the 8+3 DOS > > limitation. If I format the HDD as an MSDOS partition then the > > uncompressed files are limited to 8+3. Do I need to format the drive as > > vfat to preserve the long filenames or is there some mechanism which > > untars a tgz archive into the minix fs for the /lib branch? > > I'd just revert back to the 'normal' way of installing modules. Copy the > modules you need from the CD (or web-site, or wherever is convinent) to > /lib/modules of your RAMDISK (it NOT the HDD), and do a full backup of > modules to your hard-drive. > > There's still full support for the previous method of putting modules in > modules.lrp (/lib/modules of the expanded ramdisk)...the support for loading > modules directly off the CD is simply for convinence. > > Of course, if you wanted, you could make an ext2 partition on your HDD that > contained the modules, and load them from there using the ! directives, but > that seems like overkill... > Much better, thanks! Routing and mosts packages working fine except for backup. For some reason there are 2 listings for etc in the backup menu. Selecting either copy results in "Could not mount backup device". In this case it is /dev/hda1 on the HDD. Other packages like root and modules backup fine. I checked syslinux.cfg and there is only 1 occurance of etc loaded. Why 2 copies of etc?
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