This is for powermac. I really can't speak to any of the other ppc versions. 10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel for PowerMac <snip> Comment on kernel list. Minix file support is not required and I don't think msdos is either. ext2 certainly is? Is hfs? I'd guess not, but it's probably a recommends. <snip until after the kernel list> Download a set of boot floppies. You will need the hfsutils package installed. Your custom kernel should be named something like vmlinux when you're done building it. You will need to gzip -9 that file. You need to update the boot-floppy-hfs.img disk for initial booting. hmount boot-floppy-hfs.img hcopy -r vmlinux.gz :zImage humount You need to update the rescue disk since the installation gets the files from there. Mount the rescue disk image something like the following. mount -t auto -o loop rescue.bin /mnt Assuming you used /mnt as the mount point, copy your custom kernel to the file linux.gz on /mnt. If you want to be complete about it, you'll also want to gzip the System.map from your custom kernel and place it on /mnt as sys_map.gz and the .config as place it on /mnt as config.gz. Now you can umount your disk image and burn your floppies. One additional caveat, you will probably want to "Install Kernel and Driver Modules" using the floppies your just built to get your custom kernel installed on the hard drive. I'm sure someone out there can make this better, but it's certainly better than "Documentation not complete, text missing." Also, unless I've missed something, how does one manually modify the drivers disk? It looks like floppy-split puts on custom headers and such making it quite difficult to modify by hand. I guess this needs to be specified for i386 too. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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