Re: 3.0.15 missing ne2k-pci module?
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Mark van Walraven wrote on Fri Oct 26, 2001 um 01:24:48AM:
> I presume you mean the target root? It's already mounted by the time
> the driver disks are installed. Of course, you can also download to a
> Ramdisk.
Yes, this driver should go into the kernel. But the source may be Coda
FS (for example), then you need the driver for it. And you cannot put
every FS driver into the kernel image.
> I don't think so. Consider this. Currently, all the required drivers
> are compiled into the kernel. But suppose we have a stripped-down
> kernel with networking, tmpfs and as many common NIC drivers as will
As said before, count the space before starting to make plans. NIC
modules take 2.4MB. Add nfs, code, ntfs... about 300kB. Consider this
please.
> fit compiled-in, but basically everything else non-essential (SCSI, IDE,
> RAID, fat) as modules.
VFAT is essential. There are people installing from downloaded archives,
stored on FAT. We are speaking about an allround setup system, not
something which can be used in fast-network environment only. You may
consider such installation methods as unimportant, but many people do
not.
Tmpfs? Debian should be installable on 12MB machines. With tmpfs as the
provisoric filesystem you don't have much space. Of course you could
rely on swap. But
> On the initrd, linuxrc configures the network and downloads a larger
> ramdisk image (e.g., from a Debian archive) into a ramdisk, load any
> modules the installer wants, changes root and runs dbootstrap.
And w/o network and w/o enough RAM? Forget it.
> It might even be possible to fit it onto a single floppy (obviating gzip
> and tar on the initrd and the floppy driver compiled into the kernel).
Please have a look on FAI or create a such disk for yourself (not
complicated, few modification in the BF build system). The you have a
custom disk, but only you can use it.
> I'm not being starry-eyed here; I actually used a custom rescue disk to
> configure a Megaraid SCSI controller with busted firmware, set up LVM,
> bring up the network and download the rest I needed to install Potato.
Okay, but that is your hardware. Look at the lots of different
components, this is not really easy. For such modifications, dreams, new
ideas, please have a look on the future debian-installer project.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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