Re: rescue disk with modules?
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 08:42:28PM +0100, Kristoffer H. Rose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to build a Debian rescue disk for a PCMCIA-floppy machine (the
> Toshiba Libretto 50). This means that I must build the floppy as a
> PCMCIA-loadable module (using the floppy_cs_1.02 kernel patches).
>
> So my question is this: it seems that "just" compiling the kernel with the
> appropriate support and then adding /lib/modules/2.0.36 (as it were) and
> /etc/modules plus the pcmcia stuff is not enough ... do you guys know of
> any particular magic incantations needed?
It may be tricky... (of course, it's not supported!). ;-)
The current installation system (dbootstrap) installs the modules and the
pcmcia stuff using a shell script (install.sh) found on the drivers disk.
That script unpacks the tgz files on the /target partition and do some
symlinks from the root partition. Later, dbootstrap will use the config
files in /target/etc to configure the pcmcia stuff. If you include the
modules and pcmcia stuff on the initial root disk, you must put the
symlinks the other way round. There are a few things that may break
later though...
PS: If you know of anyone that can donate me a PCMCIA-floppy machine for
development, I'll add support for that on the next boot-floppies set. :-)
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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