Bug#58266: bf-2.2.7: PCMCIA network install is broken
> But rootdisk has /lib/modules as directory, and man page for unlink(2)
> said:
this is the right diagnosis, i think. A few of us are looking at this now
and committing fixes. Hopefully we'll get this resolved soon.
> Adding to this, I wish to move the lines in scripts/drivers/install.sh
>
> 25 ln -sf `pwd`/sbin/ifport /sbin/ifport
> 26 ln -sf `pwd`/sbin/ifuser /sbin/ifuser
> 27 ln -sf `pwd`/sbin/cardmgr /sbin/cardmgr
>
> into pcmcia.c, because this causes some difficulties for me.
>
> I did install for test, and having trouble in "Install the Base System"
> using pcmcia network install, reboot the system with floppies again,
> and skip "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" and
> "Configure Device Driver Modules" because I think I have finished these
> steps. (The target partition already has the files for these.)
>
> But the lack of the required symlinks causes the troubles,
> while this can be avoided if these symlinking is done in _activate_pcmcia()
> in pcmcia.c. So I think it is better to move these symlinking into there.
well.... maybe. but then this is not really a standard/supported installation.
randolph
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