Hi! Shane Wegner (shane@cm.nu): > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > vt100 terminal. ... > in a dos directory. My question is will simply rebuilding that linux file > as a developement kernel and editing install.bat appropriately be enough > or do I need to modify anything on root.bin? Also, do I have to rebuild You need to modify root.bin! gunzip it, mount it via loop and replace /dev/console. ohh - wait - /dev/console isn't used by the installation program. maybe you need to kludge around and make /dev/tty1 the same as /dev/console. Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt for details. > drv1440.bin with the 2.1 modules and what modules and kernel compile > options should I enable for the Debian install program to go smoothly? You need to change /dev/console in base*.tgz, too. I suppose you needn't change anything else if you don't use modules - compile the needed stuff into the kernel. Of course you can switch back to a modularized kernel when installation is finished. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB
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