[ ... manual driver load from third floppy ... ]
> The problem with such an approach is that it's not very user-friendly
> to first-time installers who have no idea how to drive the loader.
> Let's not forget the linux installation floppy saga and all the
> confusion it's caused people just in tr
On 15-Oct-00 Wes Peters wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> > We've blown out the kern.flp image. Time for me to chop something
>> > out again, unless there are any other suggestions. :|
>>
>> Mind if I commit this patch?
>>
David O'Brien wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > We've blown out the kern.flp image. Time for me to chop something
> > out again, unless there are any other suggestions. :|
>
> Mind if I commit this patch?
>
> Index: dokern.sh
> ===
:We've blown out the kern.flp image. Time for me to chop something
:out again, unless there are any other suggestions. :|
:
:- Jordan
:...
:mv /R/stage/kernels/BOOTMFS /R/stage/image.kern/kernel
:Setting up /boot directory for kern floppy
:/R/stage/image.kern/kernel: 54.8% -- replaced with /R
Mike Smith points out that removing `vpo' kills parallel port Zip drives.
Is this something we can live w/o for installs?
> Index: dokern.sh
> ===
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/scripts/dokern.sh,v
> retrieving revision 1.35
> d
At Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I had asked for a 3rd floppy earlier that we could put f/w images and other
> drivers on. Now that we have a mostly loadable system, it strikes me that this
> would be an excellent time to trim down the GENERIC
>
> > > The problem with such an approach is that it's not very user-friendly
> > > to first-time installers who have no idea how to drive the loader.
> >
> > Most of the relevant modules can actually be tried by sysinstall. In the
> > CD case we can just put them on the CDROM. I'd be incline
> The problem with such an approach is that it's not very user-friendly
> to first-time installers who have no idea how to drive the loader.
Most of the relevant modules can actually be tried by sysinstall. In the
CD case we can just put them on the CDROM. I'd be inclined to look for
somewher
> > The problem with such an approach is that it's not very user-friendly
> > to first-time installers who have no idea how to drive the loader.
>
> Most of the relevant modules can actually be tried by sysinstall. In the
> CD case we can just put them on the CDROM. I'd be inclined to look fo
> > Hmm?... my forth is poor, but I don't believe that's the issue. If I
> > understand how the floppies currently work is that it's just like our normal
> > boot loader- we start coming up. If you want to load other drivers or modules
> > (like ispfw), you hit the 'other than Enter' to stop the
> Hmm?... my forth is poor, but I don't believe that's the issue. If I
> understand how the floppies currently work is that it's just like our normal
> boot loader- we start coming up. If you want to load other drivers or modules
> (like ispfw), you hit the 'other than Enter' to stop the loading p
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> We've blown out the kern.flp image. Time for me to chop something
> out again, unless there are any other suggestions. :|
Mind if I commit this patch?
Index: dokern.sh
===
> I had asked for a 3rd floppy earlier that we could put f/w images and other
That sounds nice in theory, but somebody needs to write the code which
deals with floppy switching and module loading before this is anything
but yet another request. How's your forth? :)
- Jordan
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> We've blown out the kern.flp image. Time for me to chop something
> out again, unless there are any other suggestions. :|
Things the Alpha has already diked out:
ncr
SYS* (not just SYSVMSG)
lpt \
ppi / should not be needed for
> > I had asked for a 3rd floppy earlier that we could put f/w images and other
>
> That sounds nice in theory, but somebody needs to write the code which
> deals with floppy switching and module loading before this is anything
> but yet another request. How's your forth? :)
Hmm?... my forth is
I had asked for a 3rd floppy earlier that we could put f/w images and other
drivers on. Now that we have a mostly loadable system, it strikes me that this
would be an excellent time to trim down the GENERIC to the common denominator
per-platform and then have compressed driver images available on
We've blown out the kern.flp image. Time for me to chop something
out again, unless there are any other suggestions. :|
- Jordan
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