Re: boot disk dilemma
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:38:10AM -0700):
> dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed
> like boot/root disks. Good luck :-)
well, i understood that, and i have my disks. but in the
installationprogram, there are two options:
- preload modules (for use in initrd)
takes modules in the root directory of the floppy
i.e. floppy needs to be mounted
- configure device drivers
tries to mount the floppy
then copies all modules to /target/lib/modules/...
but the driver-1.bin file can't be loop mounted nor can the disk be
mounted.
if i strip the first 512 bytes, then the remainder is part of a gzip
file, but the installation program doesn't do anything with it.
sure, i can take a floppy with the modules on it, but there has to be
a better way that's debian native...
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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