Re: announcement: Woody floppies released!

[igueths@attbi.com]

Hi Steve. And I assume you have or had another machine to test the Debian 
install on that wasn't your working machine? Bc my problem is that I don't have 
another machine I can test the install on, and I don't want to damage or alter 
my working system! If I had a second hd I would have done it. 
> Unfortunately, that is the big part.  It is there where the problems
> begin.  Or at least, that's where trouble began for me when I was
> messing with a Debian install.  Actually, the farthest I got was when
> I tried configuring my network and it couldn't raise my network card
> because it couldn't load any network modules due to the unresolved
> modules problem.
> 
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:58:21PM +0000, igueths@attbi.com wrote:
> > Hi all. The first thing I did was to format two floppy disks, and create a 
> > dos_fs on one of the disks. This disk would be the rescue disk. I then 
> compiled 
> > a kernel with Cvs speakup, BLK_DEV_LOOP, BLK_DEV_RAM, and asorted filesystems. 
> > I then coppied the kernel to the dos-formatted floppy, as well as system.map, 
> > and syslinux.cfg. Before copying system.map though, I gzip -c -9 System.map > 
> > sys_map.gz. This was to save space on the disk. After copppying all the files, 
> > I did syslinux /dev/fd0. This created ldlinux.sys. Now to the root floppy. For 
> > that disk, it didn't require any modifications (this may change due to module 
> > problems). I took the bf24.bin from the official Woody distribution, 
> > decompressed it, and re-compressed with gzip -c -9 for maximum compression. I 
> > then dd if=bf24.bin of=/dev/fd0 to a blank floppy. After all this was done, I 
> > tested the setup. Everything seemed to work ok. I went through some of the 
> > installation steps, however the only part I dind't test was module 
> > installation. After all testing was completed, dd if=/dev/fd0 of=root.bin. 
> > > I'd be interested in the process you used to create the debian installers as 
> > > well.
> > > Last time I checked when trying to get the boot-floppies package I had 
> trouble 
> > > getting the system to send it to me and even tried getting the src package 
> for 
> > > it and building that so it wouldn't work.
> > > For handling the different kernels though what I did was go get the kernel 
> > > source tree from the debian site, untared the file, patcked it with speakup, 
> > > retared it and when the different images were being built the config files 
> that 
> > > were used didn't have speakup in them so I was able to answer all the 
> speakup 
> > > questions so this is how I came up with the kernel-image packages when I did 
> the 
> > > installers for Potato some time ago.
> > > Then what I did was copy the generated .deb files in to place so that the 
> > > boot-floppies build process would extract the kernels out of those packages 
> and 
> > > put the in to place in to the different install images.
> > > 
> > > Tommy
> > > 
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