> I fired it (the Real Thing) up - pretty startup picture :)
>
> It's something else watching things fly (using a CDROM on a Pentium 200)
> when you're used to a floppy disk on a 486 :)

Yeah, kind of fun, isn't it?

> However, I noticed that /dev/hda is hardcoded into /etc/modules;
> couldn't this use /proc/cmdline and use the BOOT value?

Or even better, /dev/cdrom (see below), but you're right...it shouldn't be
hard-coded.

> Or is one supposed to load a modules package from the data floppy?

It works either way...if you stick a module in /lib/modules and do a partial
backup, the module will be saved on the floppy.  If you haven't added any
change directory directives with the ! command, the default module location
is still /lib/modules...

> I'll start on a FAQ based on my fumblings about...

Most Excellent!

The next version will likely use /dev/cdrom, and intelligently make that a
symlink to the first found CD-Rom.  This will work for PKGPATH as well, and
I think I can even auto-detect SCSI CD-ROMS, although I don't have a way to
test it (all my SCSI CD's are installed on remote server systems, so I can
check /proc/scsi, but I can't stick in a CD and reboot :)

Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)



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