Am Mon, 2002-08-26 um 00.40 schrieb Ray Olszewski: > First, why not try installing Woody? Potato is no longer Debian-stable; > Woody is, as of about a month ago. Its installer may be new enough to solve > your problem. I downloaded the woody install-disks and will give that a try. I use potato because I have potato cds here and a 56k modem line without a flatrate :-/
> Third, I'm curious as to how you created a working replacement kernel for > the bootdisk. Did you follow the instructions in the README file on the > rescue floppy? If you did, then you should have a working replacement, so > why not just dodge the modules issue completely by compiling in the NIC > drivers you need (as newer bootdisks do with the tulip driver, for example)? I read the README on the floppy and I think I now know how to put a new kernel on that floppy so the question is how to build that driver-x.bin disks > > Finally ... if you have a working system, install the boot-floppies > package. In includes a script for creating the drivers disk set. my production-desktop is a SuSE(rpm-based). However I'll try to get that .deb installed on it. > The > drivers file is created as a single file, then put on multiple floppies > using a small c program called "floppy-split". I haven't used this myself, > but I doubt you can fake your way around it ... from a quick skim of the > source, it looks like the driver floppies don't have a real filesystem on > them, just parts of a file that can be reassembled by some app on the > rescue disk. That sounds interesting I'll search for that floppy-split program to get more information about how to create that one file as you mentioned. micha -- Windmuehlenweg 22 07907 Schleiz mobil: +491628955029 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Yahoo! präsentiert als offizieller Sponsor das Fußball-Highlight des Jahres: - http://www.FIFAworldcup.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
