On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:09:12AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > "Pedro I.Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I got a hold on the abovc portable and want to install the current > > frozen there. I can't find any boot disks (tectra or something like > > that) for portables though. > > Frozen (potato) boot floppies don't seem to need a separate tecra > image. The default rescue/install disk should work fine. I had to > use tecra when I installed stable (slink) on my 600E, but not when I > installed potato on a colleague's 600X today. And potato installed > like charm. >
The tecra images were only needed for the 2.0 kernel. In the 2.2 kernels a patch has been applied to fix the problem in file /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Drew
