Re: how to build woody drivers-1 to -4 floppies?
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:44 am, Sebastiaan wrote:
> High,
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dragos wrote:
> > hello,
> > I have an unusual setup so I built my kernel to substitute the kernel
> > from the floppies (it has loop device, fat, etc... built in; -from the
> > documentation-); that part is ok.
> > however, it says to replace modules.tgz from drivers floppies;
> > how do I do that? just copy modules.tgz to a vfat floppy?
> > it isn't very clear...
>
> I have had troubles with this too. Reading the drivers-1.bin from the
> original distribution (less drivers-1.bin) says:
> Floppy split 0.1
>
> at the beginning. This means that the floppy does not contain a
> filesystem, but just raw data. I have never found out which program is
> used to split a file to floppy's. Perhaps someone on this lists know...
>
> As an alternative to this I always did the following:
> - put the harddisk in another computer, partition it and format the disk
> with an ext2 fs.
> - copy the drivers.tgz and the base2_2.tgz (hmm, there used to be a base
> file for Potato) to the new disk
> - put the harddisk back into the new computer and boot up the installation
> proces with floppys
> - when it asks for the drivers.tgz, point it to the mounted partition
> note: you are able to have command line acces on the second console
>
> Succes,
> Sebastiaan
hello, Sebastiaan
I tried untarring directly from floppy (tar xzvf /dev/fd0 with driver-1
floppy in the drive; it doesn't work) to get a clue about how it's done.
I prefer to put them on the floppies, but as an workarround I'll do what you
told me.
thanks, dragos
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