From: Egan Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:33:08 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [SLE] 6.4 MCA boot disk On 20 Nov 2000 08:41:52 CET, Koos Pol wrote:

Can you explain why you need a MCA boot disk? The motherboard archtecture is transparent to the installation process. I have installed plain SuSE 6.3 on an EISA machine. Me thinks MCA would not make a difference.

If you look at /boot/vmlinuz.config, you will see that SuSE did not compile their 6.4 default kernel with MCA support. Without MCA support compiled into the kernel, you cannot boot an MCA machine.

From: Egan Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:38:12 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SV: [SLE] 6.4 MCA boot disk On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:58:46 +0100, "Mikke Mattsson" wrote:

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Without MCA support compiled into the kernel, you cannot boot an MCA machine.

I have one of those old MCA computers, almost as large as my desk, in my office. I would like to be able to install Linux on it, just to be able to show my co-workers that ancient technology can run 21century software.

There is an MCA boot disk for Suse 6.2 which I installed on my Server 95. It took some research to get the right LILO parameters: ibmmcascsi=ansi,0x3550,7 mca-pentium ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe The first parameter is only if you have SCSI. I had to change the scsi base address to 0x3550 and force that address via the LILO prompt because it would not work at the default address for some reason. The mca-pentium is mandatory, and I had to prevent ide probing too, before it would work. You have to suppply these parameters to LILO when using the MCA boot disk to install.

Message-Id: <200011201436.GAA29882@falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:42:49 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel Subject: Re: [SLE] Creating a custom modules floppy I'm very sure of this. The 3com module it does have is a 3c59x module which does not work with the 3c509b that I have. They're two different modules. I've tried Autoload, I've tried all the individual NIC drivers also. Nothing works. I really need a custom modules floppy... Thanks, Emmanuel At 08:52 AM 11/20/00 -0500, you wrote:

Emmanuel Gravel wrote:

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I have a 3Com 3c509 network card in my system. I want to upgrade through FTP. However neither the boot floppies or the modules disks have the necessary network card driver (strange, it's a fairly common card too). I need to make a custom modules floppy that would include this driver. What do I need to do? It should be easy to deal with once I have this done (only need to use the common boot floppy then :)

Are you sure that the modules disk dosn't have it? I installed on a machine with a 3com (I thought it was a 3c509), I chose autoload modules, and it found the card.