On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:55:23AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:42:33AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > I'm customising the bootfloppies 3.0.13 1.44 images for my own installation > > > and have replaced the kernel on the rescue disk without problems. > > > > > > I'm also now trying to change the contents of the drivers disk. The > > > installation guide says that the drivers disk is a tar.gz of > > > lib/modules/[kernel-version]. This is fine, but does the drivers disk have > > > > not quite, thats part of it, but theres more to it then that and a > > simple tarball of /lib/modules won't work with b-f. > > > > > an FS of it's own, or should I copy the tar.gz of the modules directly > > > to the disk with a dd command? > > > > the split images are in a special format, use the floppy_split utilty > > built during the b-f build process. > > The tar.gz of my modules is small enough to put on a single disk. Should > I use the floppy_split utility even so to make it into the correct > format? yes i think so, there is certain metadata dbootstrap seems to want. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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