Andrew Nagy wrote:
>
>
>
> KP Kirchdoerfer-2 wrote:
>>
>> Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 02:06:53 schrieb Andrew Nagy:
>>> KP Kirchdoerfer-2 wrote:
>>> > I suggest you look for a more readable layout of your replies, thank
>>> you.
>>> >
>>> > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 00:11:20 schrieb Andrew Nagy:
>>> >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
>>> >>
>>> >> leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> >>Uh, yeah. That's the problem.
>>> >> All I see on the floppy image are the *.cfg files and*.lrp files etc.
>>> So
>>> >> how do I add the modules to the /lib/modules folder?Sorry for being
>>> >> dense,
>>> >> but this is really not intuitive.
>>> >
>>> > But it's clever! The floppy just contains packages which will be
>>> > extracted to
>>> > a fully functional Linux router, or what ever you like to add to it
>>> > (given the packages are available).
>>> >
>>> > The whole system exists only in your RAM, you can save changes of the
>>> > system
>>> > configuration on to the floppy with the backup commands of LEAF, and
>>> you
>>> > can
>>> > add or remove packages.
>>> >
>>> > So if you _boot_ the floppy, you'll find the missing /lib/modules
>>> > directory
>>> > after you logged in and got a shell.
>>> >
>>> > You may mount another floppy containing the module you want to add and
>>> > copy it
>>> > from the mount point to /lib/modules. Continue as explained in my
>>> > previous mail.
>>> >
>>> > kp
>>>
>>> I'll try your suggestion about copying from a second floppy. (Duh, why
>>> didn't I
>>> think of that).
>>
>> Didn't I say it's clever?
>> :)
>>
>>> To answer your earlier question, I am trying to create a Bering uClibC
>>> 3.0.2 floppy image
>>> that will work with VMware Server 1.0.x which does not recognize formats
>>> over 1.44 MB
>>> either in a floppy image or physical media.
>>
>> Understand.
>> I'm not shure if helps you, just for the record:
>> I do not have problems to boot a 1660k floppy in virtualization mode with
>> qemu. Though I've never tested, if it can connect to the net.
>>
>> A question on my side - why did you want to use a pcnet32 module, if you
>> want
>> to run it within VMware, ist that the default NIC within VMware?
>>
>> kp
>>
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>
> Yeah, its clever. It needs to be included in the documentation, along with
> your suggestion about the
> second floppy. Sometimes newbies trip over their own thinking.
>
> For now I am sticking with VMware. At work I am designing a whole VMware
> VI3 (Virtual Infrastructure 3)
> environment and generally more familiar/comfortable with their products.
>
> pcnet32 is the NIC hardware in the virtual machine.
>
> Now for a question. I was able to copy pcnet32.o, mii.o and crc.o to the
> /lib/modules folder. (Thanks again)
> The problem is that my changes to /etc/modules don't stay persistant to
> the next reboot, even if I use the
> save option in the text config thingy. How do I fix this?
>
>
OK. I figured out the problem with /etc/modules. My remaining problem is how
to properly copy pcnet32.o
to the /lib/modules folder in my floppy image. Even if I do a save from
lrcfg after the copy, the pcnet32.o
file disappears after a reboot.
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