Interesting idea. Does the installation ramdisk system have a /proc file system? On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Also catting /proc/pci when the machine boots would tell you what sort of controller > if the kernel knows about it. > It should show up as an unknown mass storage controller if it doesn't. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:30:12PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote: > > Hi Chuck. The only other thing I can think of that could cause the install > > disk ot not find the hard drive would be that the controler that the drive > > runs on isn't supported by the installation kernel. Do you know what > > motherboard your friend has in her machine? Maybe there's some info on the > > slackware site about installing on machines with that particular mother > > board. Another way you can test is to put the drive your going to install > > on to in the machine by itself and boot and this will tell you if its a > > problem with the drive or the kernel not detecting the controler. > > if slackware has udma66 boot disks this is what you'll probably want to > > use though. Been a while since I've installed slackware so I don't know if > > they have a disk for this like debian does. > > If your needing to add speakup in to that kernel for making a talking boot > > disk download the kernel source tree that slackware uses and in the > > kernels directory on the cd it should have directories for all the kernels > > slack supports and inside there you should find the configuration file > > used to build that kernel. > > Copy this to .config in /usr/src/linux and patch the tree with speakup and > > then go: > > make oldconfig > > TAnd answer the speakup questions then make dep and make bzImage and send > > her the kernel. > > Also when doing this its probably easier to use loadlin for the install so > > that you don't have to play around with boot floppies. > > If the user does not need speakup then a dd image of what ever floppy > > you'll need will work too. > > > > Tommy > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (38% of Full)
