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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at 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 at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
