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Re: boot floppies drivers disk(s)



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.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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