Re: test of 'compact' install with 20000614 CVS
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 02:26:40PM -0400 , Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> ferret@phonewave.net writes:
>
> > I'm booting with the rescue and root 1.44MB diskettes. I have my
how? exact command line please. I made some changes to install.bat
> > boot-floppies CVS build copied onto an hard drive on the machine I'm
> > installing on. I mounted the partition, switched over to vt2, and copied
> > resc1440compact.bin into images-1.44/compact/rescue.bin and copied
> > driverscompact.tgz into compact/drivers.tgz, and told dbootstrap to
> > install kernel and modules from the directory with the build of CVS files.
> >
> > I think what happened was that it used the drivers.tgz in the '.'
> > directory instead of in './compact'. The kernel installed is
> > 2.2.15-compact, but the modules are in /lib/modules/2.2.15/
>
> Hmmm.... boot with the debug switch. There is a bootarg also that you
> need to use so it knows to use compact, I am pretty sure.
>
> Is this a bug report?
>
> It's not necessarily the case that the modules should be
> /lib/modules/2.2.15-compact/. That string, '2.2.15' or
> '2.2.15-compact' is based on what 'uname -r' output is.
>
> I don't think this is actually broken in the boot-floppies, is it?
in fact there is (see the mesages from last week from me). The install.bat
didn't supply flavor= option to the kernel and dbootstrap. It's fixed now.
Petr Cech
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