Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread jam
John, You'd be surprised at what times you can find me awake. A couple of guys on the ltsp development team are in Australia, and somehow we manage to spend a fair amount of time together. That's the cool thing about IRC, you'll almost always find somebody there ready to help. Jim. On Sun, 14

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread John O'Gorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John, > > Sounds like you've got a pretty good handle on what buildk > does. Just make sure that you start with fresh kernel > sources from ftp.kernel.org, rather than the kernel sources > that ship with your distro. Yes. Thanks for the reminder. I have already fet

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread John O'Gorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John, > > One more thing, While you are working on this, if you > have questions, come on over to the #ltsp IRC channel > at irc.openprojects.net, and I can give you some interactive > help. Thanks for the offer Jim. I am in New Zealand. So I imagine that the tim

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread jam
John, One more thing, While you are working on this, if you have questions, come on over to the #ltsp IRC channel at irc.openprojects.net, and I can give you some interactive help. Jim. On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, John O'Gorman wrote: > Tarjei wrote: > > > > You've done man mkinitrd ? > > I have n

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread jam
John, Sounds like you've got a pretty good handle on what buildk does. Just make sure that you start with fresh kernel sources from ftp.kernel.org, rather than the kernel sources that ship with your distro. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, John O'Gorman wrote: > Tarjei wr

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread John O'Gorman
Tarjei wrote: > > You've done man mkinitrd ? I have now! I don't think mkintrd is part of ltsp. I have now looked at the buildk script in the initrd_kit. I looks as though it can be unloaded anywhere and run in situ. buildk looks in /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-ltsp... for the kernel source files and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-13 Thread Tarjei
You've done man mkinitrd ? Tarjei John O'Gorman wrote: >After a few weeks of prayer and fasting, I think I now know what >must be done to allow LTSP to work with the new SiS630ET chip. > >From a remark by Ken Yap, I infer that the sis900.o file must be >in the initrd file image which is tacked

[Ltsp-discuss] how do I make an initrd for sis630ET

2002-04-12 Thread John O'Gorman
After a few weeks of prayer and fasting, I think I now know what must be done to allow LTSP to work with the new SiS630ET chip. >From a remark by Ken Yap, I infer that the sis900.o file must be in the initrd file image which is tacked onto the kernel image. So I think that I need to: 1. Recom