[ale] HOWTO->create "root" floppy for RH6.1, [I have the "boot" floppy]........

[tslane at attbi.com]

not a direct answer to your ? but why are you running Oracle on RH6.1?  I know
OSS claims to support it but our experience was that they have no real
committment to Linux as a platform and were only "talking the talk" for PR
purposes.  FWIW, I've actually found SuSE (!=7.3) to be much more "Oracle
friendly".  my advice would be to upgrade your OS and forget about using
MetaLink if your running on Linux.

feel free to email directly if you want to take it offline as I doubt the rest
of the board wants to get into a deep Oracle discussion (even if it is re:
running it on Linux).
> Greetings Again !
> 
> First off, the only reason I'm running this OS is Oracle.
> 
> When I installed, I was asked did I want a rescue floppy and of course 
> said yes. Well, upon finally needing it, I find that it asks for a 
> "root" floppy after loading this boot floppy into ram, which I cannot 
> write to. So, I am unable to modify any / files.
> 
> Will a root floppy enable me to write to the drive and if yes, where can 
> I get such a critter ?
> 
> If no,.....now what ?
> 
> The real problem is......... that the system uses a dpt_i2o controller 
> which is recognized by the rescue floppy, and therefore a root floppy 
> must be compatible with the existing rescue floppy. But willt this 
> permit accessing the drive on the dpt_i2o controller ?
> 
> If not, then this rescue floppy is worthless or I don't know how to use 
> it. Hopefully the latter.
> 
> If I don't know how to use it, how should I ?
> 
> All I need to do is modify lilo.conf or /etc/fstab.
> 
> I tried "tomsrtbt" floppy but it doesn't see the dpt_i2o controller.
> 
> BTW, I have a floppy with the dpt_i2o driver module on it, but it's from 
> Adaptec and is not a simple ~.o file loadable with insmod from tomsrtbt 
> floppy.
> 
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
> 
> 
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