Re: Install on Adaptec 7890?
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Stern wrote:
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: What I did was to select the kernel options good ol' Bruce listed in
: the readme on the rescue disk statically (initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos,
: fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs). Then I added major categories of
: features statically (scsi), with individual options in those categories
: (ai7xxx) as modules. I also used cpu type 386 to reduce the size of
: the kernel somewhat, although that is probably overkill. Categories
: which I didn't need, like isdn or ethernet, I excluded to save space,
: again probably overkill.
:
: Then I modified the Makefile as follows before compiling:
:
: ROOT_DEV = /dev/ramdisk
:
: RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440
There's a file on the rescue disk (rdev.sh?) that contains the rdev
commands you need to run on your new kernel image once you've finished
compiling. No need to edit the Makefile.
I generally apply the rdev commands my new kernel, then I ftp the kernel
over and copy it to the rescue disk from an NT command prompt - my
desktop at work is NT, the linux server(s) are in another room and are
physically secured so using the floppy is a pain.
Works for me,
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Nathan Norman
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