Hi Chris. I really appreciate your time in answering my questions. On 30/12/01, Chris Tillman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 10:42:03AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > 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! > > Well you haven't mentioned if your kernel has already been compressed; > they are compressed whenever they go onto floppies. But I think that's > part of the code that creates these. So probably it will fit. The 1.5M kernel is a bzImage. Somebody has suggested I use the compact .configure and simply drop aacraid and add megaraid. I'll give that a go. > > Mmm. Still can't find any boot-floppies docs. > For sure, there isn't much documentation beyond > /usr/share/doc/boot-floppies/README mmm. It sounds like my potato boot-floppy package didn't include the docs... > What might be easier, if you don't want to dig into the salt mines of > boot-floppies source, is to find an earlier version (before the raid > support was removed). But I'm not sure where you'd look (archive > debian.org?), or what version you'd look for (probably a couple months > old). Another good idea. I wasn't aware of an archive. I'll have a look - thanks for the tip. > For editing, you can do what the b-f build does: create a loopback > image and mount it. I didn't read the documents clearly here. Thanks. -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
