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"Jerry A!" wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:30:56PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> : > The unmapped cdrom is recognized as fd0. There is no /dev/floppy. |
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> : true, just my alias under devfs |
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> : > However, this is only to boot. Once the kernel starts up the cdrom will |
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> : > be probed and recognized as /dev/hdc. If I have the usb floppy |
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> : > attached, that will be proved and recognized as usb mass storage device |
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> : > /dev/sdb. |
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> : Sounds strange, I will make a linuxrc that scans /dev/fd0, hope that |
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> : works if you don't add any kernel |
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> : options. |
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> Well, I will need to add ide1=0x180,0x386. Will that hose things on |
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> your end? Or will it not be necessary since I'm booting off the floppy |
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> and fetching over the wire? |
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I focus on both possibilities right now. |
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If we use tomstbr, it seems that using reiserfs requires splitting the |
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partiton first and install |
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sys.tbz2 in a second small temporary ext2 partition. The from this |
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partition sys can be installed |
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on the firts reiserfs partition. after that you can drop the secod and |
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extend the first partition. |
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Not so nice moethod. |
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The alternative is to get this iso working an and use it as a rescue |
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system. At the moment linuxrc scans |
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/dev/hd[a-d] /dev/scd[0-1]. I'm planing to replace it with a devfs |
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version then I must only scan /dev/cdrom/*. |
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I attached a special linuxrc that only scans /dev/fd0, /dev/hdc and |
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/dev/hde additionally it outputs all kernel |
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messages to the console. Additionally it does not test if a version file |
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exists on the cd. Make sure that the devices exist on the boot-floppy. |
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achim~ |
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> Is it feasible to make linuxrc look for a gentoo boot disk on /dev/hdb, |
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> /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc? My guess is that as more |
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> and more people start using Gentoo, we'll run into more and more users |
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> that have laptop hardware. |
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> : BTW: is there a mkreiserfs on tomstbr? If not I'll upload a statically |
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> : linked version too. |
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> Just checked, there is on reiserfs support on tomstbr. It's using a |
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> 2.0.38 kernel. So, I guess a statically linked mkreiserfs would be |
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> nice, but wouldn't be any help. 8( |
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> --Jerry |
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> email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important |
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> || than that! |
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