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heh, you don't need a network card working within the initrd. |
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That can happen in userland, with hotplug. I suppose there could |
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be a need if there was like a floppy boot image and you wanted |
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to install via the net or something, but since we don't currently |
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support that.... |
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-Brad |
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:54:03PM -0500, Brad House wrote: |
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>> As for the SCSI stuff, I doubt there are very many SCSI cards that come |
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>> with alpha's by default, you could just compile those few directly into |
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>> the kernel. |
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> I did, and the few Ethernet cards as well. (I couldn't find a "doether" or |
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> similar command in linuxrc, and it wasn't detecting the network.) If the |
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> user has something other than the three SCSI adapters I compiled in - |
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> including any RAID controller - or something other than the four Ethernet |
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> NICs I compiled in, he'll have to specify the appropriate parameter |
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> manually. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff. |
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