Bug#63900: 2.2.13 net install: Can't configure drivers from compact flavor
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.13
When doing a net install from the compact flavor of the
2.2.13-2000-05-04 i386 boot floppies, I am unable to configure the
device drivers.
A very brief message flashes at the bottom of the screen, I believe it
says:
can't cd to /target/lib/modules/2.2.15-compact
which would be a correct statement since that directory doesn't exist.
My guess is that when it did the network install of operating system
and modules, it grabbed drivers.tgz from current/ rather than
current/compact. I tried to test this by specifying the path to
compact in the download URL, but then it fails to find
images-1.44/rescue.bin.
Perhaps it tack on the flavor prefix when it tries to grab rescue.bin
and drivers.tgz so that it grabs
images-1.44/<flavor>/rescue.bin
<flavor>/drivers.tgz
--Brent Hendricks
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