Hi Chris
Thanks for your reply, and the pointer. I've been using the potato
docs!
However I'm still stuck. I still don't know if my 1.5M kernel will work
on the rescue floppy. The rescue floppy can't be more than 1.44M, not
so? Help!
Thanks
Rory
On 29/12/01, Chris Tillman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:09:34AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > I need to make my own boot-floppies to install Debian on a new Dell
> > Poweredge server.
...
> > Problems:
> > 1) My kernel is 1.5M, larger than a floppy! Won't this be a problem?
> > 2) Can I somehow mount the boot disk image without putting it on a
> > floppy and mounting that, to do the kernel image swap? (I'm trying
> > to do as much of this as possible away from the office, sshing in!).
> > 3) Although I've installed the boot-floppies package (and deps) on my
> > potato server, I can't find the promised docs.
>
> In the link in my sig, you'll find instructions for kernel compiling
> in the last chapter, 'Post Install' But there are about 5 forward
> references from other sections to that one.
Entries from the install manual are indented:
The boot-floppies package contains all of the source code and
documentation for the installation floppies.
Mmm. Still can't find any boot-floppies docs.
If you find it necessary to replace the kernel on the rescue floppy,
you must configure your new kernel with these features linked in,
not in loadable modules:
Fine. Done all this.
Download a set of boot floppies: root, rescue, and driver disks...
One reason to use the compact set, for instance, is that it has only
1 driver disk and your custom kernel will likely have all the
drivers you need built in...copy your custom kernel to /mnt/ linux.
Next run the script rdev.sh which resides in /mnt, which assumes it
will find the kernel as described here.
I guess I can't do the manipulation of the compact images without first
writing the compact set to some floppies, mounting these and editing the
contents of the disks. HOWEVER: will my 1.5M file fit in the 1.44M
space?
Now you can umount your disk image and burn your floppies.
Surely this is going to be a problem if my vmlinux kernel image is 1.5M?
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