Installation: where are the modules?
I am in a twisty little maze of installation errors, all different.
I downloaded the current Potato "compact" diskette images for installation
onto a Compaq ProLiant 1500R. The box has a Compaq NetFlex NIC (tlan
driver) and the disks are connected via a Compaq SMART2/P RAID controller
(cpqarray driver). "compact" is supposed to have both of these drivers
built as modules.
I can't get the modules loaded, so I'm stuck near the beginning of
installation. These drivers don't seem to be on the root disk. Okay, I
select "preload essential modules from diskette". The drivers-1.bin image
isn't any kind of filesystem image that I understand; 'file' doesn't grok
it, and says it's just binary data. The installer agrees: it says it
can't mount the drivers diskette.
Okay, I found the combined drivers archive and unpacked the drivers I
needed. I copied 'em to a diskette with an ext2 filesystem, into the
/boot directory. Now the installer can find the modules, but it says they
failed to load. I switch to vc2 and find it usable, so I manually
'insmod' them. I am rewarded with a dozen complaints about unresolved
symbols.
By now I recognize that I'm just floundering, having missed some critical
piece of information. Would someone please point me in the right
direction.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
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