Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:10:58 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: bootstrapping network (bcm) on Dell D800 Message-ID: <16177.10386.589099.422214@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030806131905.GE5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> References: <20030805194530.GC5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> <20030805154926.B88927@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> <16176.63764.221018.47299@canoe.velocet.net> <20030806131905.GE5181@slytherin.ds.psu.edu>
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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins <Dr.> writes: Richard> I finally figureed out that the removable floppy (which works Richard> both as an external usb and internall) is treated as a scsi Richard> device, not /dev/fd0. So I tried moving the drivers from the Richard> up to date machine. No dice; they depend on another changed Richard> function. Richard> So I borrowed a usb zip drive, and found that a bzip2'd Richard> source tree is only 83M. I've moved that, and have a new Richard> kernel compiling from a source tree updated this morning. Am Richard> I going to have to do anything else to get the bge device Richard> detected, or will it just kernel installation and reboot take Richard> care of this? The bge device is in the kernel by default... so as long as you didn't delete it, you'll be fine. I forgot to mention that the system appears to be PXE compatible... so you could PXE boot a newly compiled kernel (you need pxeboot and kernel.GENERIC with new drivers on the boot server. You can even have a kernel with the mfsroot compiled into it on the boot server). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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