From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com ([216.148.227.88]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18CO9B-0002dz-00 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:51:21 -0500 Received: from rwcrwbc57 ([204.127.198.46]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20021114173153.SRLX1052.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@rwcrwbc57> for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:31:53 +0000 Received: from [216.20.1.212] by rwcrwbc57; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:31:51 +0000 From: igueths@attbi.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: announcement: Woody floppies released! Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:31:51 +0000 X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Nov 5 2002) X-Authenticated-Sender: aWd1ZXRoc0BhdHRiaS5jb20= Message-Id: <20021114173153.SRLX1052.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@rwcrwbc57> Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup