How are the disk-images on the CDs (in /disks) made?
Hello, I've sort of volunteered to make some custom book disks for a Dell engineer (No no, don't get excited... it's nothing big). I just finished reading the chapter on making boot disks in the 7.2 manual (the 8.0 manual seciton on boot disks is nrealy void of info... strange) and there's not much about customising it. Are they just made with make bzdisk ? Does that automatically split it into 3 flopies (boot, module-net, module-scsi/raid/pcmcia)? Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Clickpatrol.com Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
* JW (jw@centraltexasit.com) [020503 13:02]:
Are they just made with make bzdisk ? Does that automatically split it into 3 flopies (boot, module-net, module-scsi/raid/pcmcia)?
Are you talking about the installation images (bootdisk, modules[1-3]) or a bootdisk for a running system (a kernel and maybe lilo)? -- -ckm
The installation images - "boot", "module1 -- networking" and "module 2 -- SCSI/RAID/PCMCIA' Basically I have to modify a few lines in the kernal source (the Dell tech gave me the additional stuff) and re-make the installation floppies, because the install disks (including the CDs) are missing some PCI info that wasn't avaiable at the time they were produced. CM >* JW (jw@centraltexasit.com) [020503 13:02]: CM >> Are they just made with make bzdisk ? Does that automatically split CM >> it into 3 flopies (boot, module-net, module-scsi/raid/pcmcia)? CM > CM >Are you talking about the installation images (bootdisk, CM >modules[1-3]) or a bootdisk for a running system (a kernel and maybe CM >lilo)? -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Clickpatrol.com Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
* JW (jw@centraltexasit.com) [020506 09:52]:
The installation images - "boot", "module1 -- networking" and "module 2 -- SCSI/RAID/PCMCIA'
Basically I have to modify a few lines in the kernal source (the Dell tech gave me the additional stuff) and re-make the installation floppies, because the install disks (including the CDs) are missing some PCI info that wasn't avaiable at the time they were produced.
So the new module will have the same name as an existing module...good. I'd just replace on the module on the appropriate modules floppy image. For example: losetup /dev/loop0 modules1 mount /dev/loop0 /mnt zcat /mnt/fs-modules > fs-modules.uncomp losetup /dev/loop1 fs-modules.uncomp mount /dev/loop1 /mnt1 Now you can copy your new module into /mnt1 (just make sure you have the modules disk so the names work out) and reverse the above steps to rebuild the floppy image: umount /dev/loop1 gzip -c fs-modules.uncomp > /mnt/fs-modules umount /dev/loop0 losetup -d /dev/loop0 losetup -d /dev/loop1 -- -ckm
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