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"Jerry A!" wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:51:12PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> : "Jerry A!" wrote: |
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> : > |
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> : > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> : > : |
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> : > : If you can boot from a floppy and concurrently acces your cdrom, I can |
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> : > : make you a modified version |
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> : > : of linuxrc that only probes your unmapped cdrom device. Making a floppy |
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> : > : from images/boot-grub.? creating |
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> : > : the device on that floppy and replacing linuxrc should work. Replacing |
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> : > : the kernel on that floppy with a |
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> : > : one that has support for your network card build if the above solution |
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> : > : works should give you the posiibility to |
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> : > : grab the sys.tbz2 via ftp and install it instead of the one on the iso. |
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> : > |
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> : > Okay, I'll go ahead and do that. I'm also dd'ing a tomsrbt disk right |
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> : > now as well. Dammit, I'm gonna have Gentoo before the end of the |
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> : > weekend. I need my fix!!! |
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> : > |
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> : > So, where's the sys.tbz2 that I should be using? |
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> : I'm building it right now should be available in an hour. Hope you don't |
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> : get a cold turkey till then. |
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> : Your unmapped cdrom is on /dev/floppy or what? |
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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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> The more I think about it, the more I may be getting bit by this whole |
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> flakey loop device bug (which is of course fixed in 2.4.3). |
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I don't think this loop device flakeyness is the cause. In this |
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situation your cdrom whould be detencted |
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but could not be mounted. So in this case the install process hangs. But |
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in your situation it should repeate |
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the scan endless. |
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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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achim~ |
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> --Jerry |
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> name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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> phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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> email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important |
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> || than that! |
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