Re: Qn re amiga linux install - Solution!
Hiya,
I managed to find a solution regarding my problem installing the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin on the amiga. Thought I'd post it for anyone who might need it in the future...
> > >- then i sit at a blank install screen (all blue bar the Debian title and
> > >the <up><down> footer). And nothing happens. Nothing overly interesting in
> > >the logs on Virtual consoles 3 or 4 either... I left it there for about 15
> > >minutes with nothing happeni ng.
> > Try killing dinstall and see if it picks up the install where it left off.
> Better try waiting longer, much longer.
Okay, so here's how I got it to work;
- Booted up linux off the root.bin file in ram;
amiboot -k vmlinux -r root.bin root=/dev/ram
- Was put into the normal dinstall screens, and remounted the swap and linux filesystem partitions
- ALT-F2'ed to the 2nd virtual console and started a shell
- copied the drv and resc bins to /target
- typed;
mkdir /mnt/resc
mkdir /mnt/drv
losetup /dev/loop0 /target/resc1440.bin
losetup /dev/loop1 /target/drv1440.bin
mount -t msdos /dev/loop0 /mnt/resc
mount -t msdos /dev/loop1 /mnt/drv
- after looking at the files in the rescue disk it appeared that it didnt really have anything that needed installing from what I already had going on my system (I had already installed the base2_0.tgz file). Let me know if i'm wrong, but I ignored this d
isk altogether.
- Now the important bit. For the drivers/modules, I just typed;
cd /mnt/drv
./install.sh /target
- Rebooted to make sure it actually worked
amiboot -k vmlinux root=/dev/sda1
And it was able to list and load the modules. yay! It's probably not the nicest way to do things, as I suppose it installs all the modules, but hey it's better than any other solution I've found...
;-)
mark
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