Re: [salimma1@yahoo.co.uk: Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support]
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:37:57AM +0000, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
> -- Cormac McGuinness <cormac@physics.bu.edu> wrote: >
> Hi
> >
> > I think what Eric means is that you have a hard
> > disk, you can put the
> > rescue.bin and root.bin etc into a DOS directory,
> > along with loadlin
> > and the complete base_2.2.tgz (or whatever the file
> > is called). The
> > simple .bat file (which you can find in the debian
> > archives) will then
> > boot you into Linux, and you have immediate access
> > to root.bin and can
> > merrily install ... (you have to boot into plain
Absolutely. Loadlin loads the linux kernel into memory, there's a temporary
root partition created, from which the disks are partitioned, etc ... Then the base system is installed onto the real root partition.
That's how I install Debian on my laptop, which has no floppies and, for some
misterious, refuse to boot from Debian CD's. I was thus in the same situation
as Michel.
I installed Potato and then upgraded to Woody.
> Well, that at least does not work . For some reason
> LILO doesn't load at all - froze after 'Uncompressing
> Linux'.
LILO doesn't play here. It's loadlin.
IMHO, if the system freezes while uncompressing the kernel using loadlin, it
will also freeze using the boot-floppies, but I may be wrong of course.
> > DOS first (or Windows
> > 9x command line as it is now known))
> > Read the install manual, it will give you more
> > details on this
> > method - which is far easier than using floppy disks
> > in my opinion
> > and should be highlighted more - If you do not
> > already have some kind of
> > DOS/Windows partition then my suggestion is of
> > little help...
Absolutely. Installing from Hard Disk is far easier than writing and playing DJ with 12 (!)
floppies.
>
> I still have a WinMe partition which I plan to remove.
> But the idea occur that I can boot using a custom boot
> disk (the rescue/root combo won't work - see below),
> use it to put a root image on the to-be-swap
> partition, boot using the rescue disk pointing to that
> said partition, and let the drum rolls...
> >
> > Of course, to use the USB floppy, you may need to
> > download a
> > new kernel, I believe the complete 2.2.18 has all
> > the USB stuff
> > backported into it
> Nah, the USB floppy cannot be coerced to work unless
> both SCSI and USB Mass Storage are compiled as modules
> (weird, that). And since modules are loaded *from* the
> root disk, obviously that precludes loading root from
> that floppy. Bugger.
>
> Let's hope the Debian Installer project will produce:
> 1. Rescue/InitRD in one floppy like other distros, or
> 2. A mini rescue/initrd in conjunction with normal
> floppies, for extreme cases like mine. Will actually
> volunteer to do this, once I get through reading all
> those Debian docs, start an attempt at package
> maintenance and try my luck at the new maintainers
> queue :p
>
> Regards,
>
> Michel Salim
> Best of luck with the Woody floppies!
>
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