announcement: Woody floppies released!

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, I did.  I've since put slackware 8.1 on there and have a PHP
application using a database on there.  I might consider backing the
new apps up and blowing out the drive and trying it again.  But before
I do, I wanna be sure a solution of some kind has been identified by
someone concerning the modules deal.  You might have it licked by
compiling the kernel with the Debian environment.  I'm still thinking
one might have to build a kernel and use the exact same modules that
came from that compile to go into a "drivers" package for the new
Debian root disk/driver disk.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:31:51PM +0000, igueths at attbi.com wrote:
> 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 at 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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