hello, Im attempting to run a laptop [vaio PCG-F304] without a hard disk. The plan is to have the root fs on a CF disk in a pcmcia adapter.
First i thought i would use the installer to install woody on the CF, I got the first woody cd and booted from that, there didnt seem to be any pcmcia modules, so i made a floppy with the pcmcia modules for -bf2.4 once all the relevant modules were loaded [pcmcia_core, i82365, ds & ide-cs] the device which is usually the cf card [/dev/hde] didnt exist, so i figured cardmgr et al are needed also. Next attempt was to use debootstrap to get woody on the CF [using a different laptop], then use a bootfloppy to actualy start it. I tried to setup an initrd as described in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/PCMCIA-HOWTO.gz I compiled the kernel with pcmcia built in, and copied it to floppy, made initrd with pcinitrd -v initrd then compressed it with gzip -9, and copied it to also the floppy. Unfortunately, the kernel and initrd didnt fit on the floppy. I checked the size of the kernel -was 1.3mb, so re compiled without out as much as i thought i could get away with, got it down to 900k, but the initrd.gz is 600k, so still wouldnt fit on the floppy! I think its possible to have the initrd on a seperate disk from the kernel? how do you do that? anyone got an ingenious way of booting a system with root on cf? it can involve cds or floppies, or a combination of the two!! thanks, -- hugh
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