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. I need MegaRAID support (dropped in the latest > 'compact' images) and appletalk networking. > > I read the boot-floppies documentation linked through the install > manual. It suggests replacing the 'linux' file on the boot floppy with > the newly compiled one and running a script included on the floppy. > > 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. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
