Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 02:06:53 schrieb Andrew Nagy:
> KP Kirchdoerfer-2 wrote:
> > I suggest you look for a more readable layout of your replies, thank you.
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 00:11:20 schrieb Andrew Nagy:
> >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> >>
> >> leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> >>Uh, yeah. That's the problem.
> >> All I see on the floppy image are the *.cfg files and*.lrp files etc. So
> >> how do I add the modules to the /lib/modules folder?Sorry for being
> >> dense,
> >> but this is really not intuitive.
> >
> > But it's clever! The floppy just contains packages which will be
> > extracted to
> > a fully functional Linux router, or what ever you like to add to it
> > (given the packages are available).
> >
> > The whole system exists only in your RAM, you can save changes of the
> > system
> > configuration on to the floppy with the backup commands of LEAF, and you
> > can
> > add or remove packages.
> >
> > So if you _boot_ the floppy, you'll find the missing /lib/modules
> > directory
> > after you logged in and got a shell.
> >
> > You may mount another floppy containing the module you want to add and
> > copy it
> > from the mount point to /lib/modules. Continue as explained in my
> > previous mail.
> >
> > kp
>
> I'll try your suggestion about copying from a second floppy. (Duh, why
> didn't I
> think of that).

Didn't I say it's clever?
:)

> To answer your earlier question, I am trying to create a Bering uClibC
> 3.0.2 floppy image
> that will work with VMware Server 1.0.x which does not recognize formats
> over 1.44 MB
> either in a floppy image or physical media.

Understand.
I'm not shure if helps you, just for the record:
I do not have problems to boot a 1660k floppy in virtualization mode with 
qemu. Though I've never tested, if it can connect to the net.

A question on my side - why did you want to use a pcnet32 module, if you want 
to run it within VMware, ist that the default NIC within VMware?

kp

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