Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
e? : : Building the root file system is a non-trivial problem. The boot-floppies : package builds everything that you find in a disks-i386 directory, so it : is a bit complex. : : The cryptic instructions that you indicated previously are an indication : of the place to tailor the package to your

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
new kernel for the disk (it is difficult to > run rdev.sh if you have no Linux system handy) The paragraph you cut out would do that. If you need modules added you must unpack the root fs and add them. If you mount resc1440.bin on a loop device, you can treat it just like any other file system

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: : On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > Hello, : > [ snip ] : If all you need to do is put a different kernel on the rescue floppy : (which is what it sounds like) simply take the delivered image, mount it, : and copy the kernel image from your

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Vincent Renardias wrote: : : On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI : > disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are : > supported by the current rescue disks. : : The l

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Hello, > > We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI > disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are > supported by the current rescue disks. > > So, in a not quite right state of mind, I decided I w

Re: boot-floppies package

1998-04-09 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI > disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are > supported by the current rescue disks. The lastest boot disks from Debian 1.3 work just fine; I've used the

boot-floppies package

1998-04-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hello, We have a ton of older PS/2 MCA machines around here, many with ESDI disks, others with the IBM SCSI HBA. Neither ESDI nor the IBM HBA are supported by the current rescue disks. So, in a not quite right state of mind, I decided I would make some boot floppies so that my coworkers, and any