Thanks for the very useful email, Stephen. Life seems fun again! On 30/12/01, Stephen R Marenka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:09:34AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > 1) My kernel is 1.5M, larger than a floppy! Won't this be a problem? > > When you created the kernel did you make zImage, make bzImage bzImage > If your compressed kernel is bigger than 1.5M, you need to remove some > drivers and try again. You probably would want to start with the > .config from the compact flavor of boot-floppies. Thanks for the great idea and url! > > 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!). > > Are you already running linux on this box? There are some notes on > bootstrapping Debian from other distros in the archives > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/>. This is a completely new, naked server! I'm hoping to get the necessary floppy disk images all prepped on another server so that I can fly into the office and do the basic install on the new server before work begins in the office in the new year - without spending too much day time away from my family. > > 3) Although I've installed the boot-floppies package (and deps) on my > > potato server, I can't find the promised docs. > > Don't bother with boot-floppies directly. Just add your custom kernel to > a rescue floppy, some rough directions are at > ><http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/doc/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel>. I'll do it this way. Thanks for the pointers. -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
