Re: strange question
I have one of the new adaptec 2940 u2w's... I talked to justin (the guy
that maintains the driver for the aic7xxx), and he gave me an update (its
a fix for what to do w/ the sequencing instructions... I think :). Is it
possible to put the boot floppy on the hd itself and boot from it? (I'm
pretty sure it is, just let me know if I'm way off... should just be
setting boot=/dev/sda and then using the lilo.conf from the boot disk to
setup the correct ramdisks. But then that leads to another
question... I was planning to put reiserfs on this partition, so will I
have to cpio my entire dist put reiserfs on it, and then put it back where
it belongs? I was hoping to just put reiserfs and have the install not
format the partition ext2fs for me. Anyways, any help will be excellent.
Thanks,
jon
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:01:34PM -0500, jon wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to install a distribution from inside of Linux? Here's the
> > problem, I have a scsi card/disk that I would like to boot from, but none
> > of the dists will boot an accept the card, so I had to install on the ide
> > drive, tweak the kernel, and then am able to mount the drive, so is there
> > a way to boot from the ide drive and install a dist onto the scsi drive
> > then to chroot and build it a correct kernel? I guess another option would
> > be to fix one of the boot disks, or fix one of the kernels and replace it
> > and either burn another cd, or put all of it on the scsi drive and then
> > install. Please advise.
>
> My first question would be what SCSI card? What did you have to change
> in the kernel to get it to mount? It may be that one of the flavors of
> boot-floppies already supports your card. If not, that's probably a bug.
>
> If not, the Debian Installation Manual has instructions for replacing
> the kernel on the rescue disk with a custom kernel, see the following
> link.
>
> <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Stephen
>
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