On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > I've got one of these cursed Libretto L70s which can't boot a normal Linux install set without a special floppy driver due to the floppy being accessible by BIOS calls only. > > The driver can be found here http://libxg.free.fr/floppy/floppy.htm > > Can someone cook me up a Woody i386 rescue disk with this driver so that I can install Woody? I found a disk for Potato, but AFAIK I can't start the system up with a Potato boot disk to install Woody. > > I would greatly appreciate it. I'd cook the disk up myself, but I'm kinda new at the Debian thing, graduating up from Mandrake. <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel> details everyting you need to know about replacing the kernel on a rescue disk. The section following explains how to preload modules. Between those you should have everything you need to build your own, on any linux box. I think I'd just add the module to the rescue disk and modify /etc/modules. The only problem you may run into is that the kernel version may conflict with the module version. That means you'd need to roll your own kernel or download the kernel package and rebuild with that. HTH, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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