Could a native speaker proofread this?
Index: en/tech-info.sgml
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RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/en/tech-info.sgml,v
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
you didn't perform the last step properly, then
&Configure-Device-Driver-Modules; won't find any modules and thus
will be sad.
-
+<p>
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<![ %m68k [
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
custom kernel to <file>/mnt/linux.bin.gz</file>.
<p>If you want to be complete about it, you'll also want to gzip the
-System.map from your custom kernel and place it in <file>/mnt</file>
+System.map from your custom kernel, gzip it and place it in <file>/mnt</file>
as sys_map.gz and gzip the .config and place it in <file>/mnt</file>
as config.gz.
@@ -170,6 +170,37 @@
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+<![ %i386 [
+<sect>Alternative way: preloading existing modules
+<p>
+If you need an essential driver in order to access the harddisk or installation
+source device, you can take existing modules instead of recompiling the whole
+kernel. You can preload driver modules from a floppy disk before mounting the
+root partition. To prepare a such floppy, you will need:
+<p><list>
+<item>Another box with running Linux, a floppy drive and usuall tools</item>
+<item>Alternatively, you can do this on a Win32 machine, using usual windows tools
+and GNU tar and gzip (or Winzip)
+<item>a fresh formated floppy disk</item>
+<item>pen and paper</item>
+</list>
+To create the preload disk, do the following (assuming that you are on a Linux box,
+with your Debian CD-ROM mounted in /cdrom and you are going to use the bf2.4 flavor
+later):
+<list>
+<item>Create a temporary directory and change to it ("cd /tmp; mkdir work; cd work")
+<item>Extract the kernel and modules for the flavor that you want to install with...
+<example>
+su
+tar zxvf /cdrom/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4/drivers.tgz
+tar zxvf modules.tgz
+less lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep
+</example>
+<item>Read the modules.dep file, locate the modules that you were looking for, and
+note it's dependencies. Notice the order in that the modules depends on each other.
+Do the same for all dependencies, unless you have a list with modules that can be
+loaded without dependencies.
+<item>Copy all required modules to a separate location.
+<item>Format your floppy disk, create the msdos filesystem ("mformat a:").
+<item>Make a directory called "boot" on the floppy disk. Copy all required modules to
+this directory.
+<item>Ready, you can use this disk to preload modules. Do not lose your notices, you
+may need them to load modules in the correct order.
+</list>
+</sect>
+<!-- end i386 --> ]]>
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Wenn ich's nicht compilieren kann, ist es nicht frei
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