slug with lenny in flash and wheezy on filesystem

["Rainer H. Rauschenberg" <rainerh@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de>]

Hello,

I own and use several Slugs (NSLU2). One of them (my main "fileserver") 
still ran on Lenny until 3 days ago when the USB-stick finally died 
(almost died). I had a replacement prepared more than a year ago with 
Squeeze, but didnt use it after some initial problems. So I upgraded the 
replacement to Wheezy (which didn't cause any major problems, only took 
some hours). Then I thought it would be nice to use a copy of the 
USB-stick of this Wheezy-installation to reanimate the system with Lenny 
in flash (and do a flash-kernel when it lets me ssh in).

Problem is: The Lenny-kernel from flash doesn't load the ethernet driver 
from the Wheezy USB-stick; logs are written, so I can see that the 
filesystem is mounted ok, only ethernet is missing.

My question: Does it seem like a good idea to place a line with 
"flash-kernel" into /etc/rc.local ? Once this happened I would shut down 
the system (power-button of the Slug, redefined to shutdown in Lenny, 
still works), edit /etc/rc.local and delete "flash-kernel", after that the 
system should com up normally (shouldn't it?).

Thanks in advance for any useful comments

Rainer