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

[Geoffrey]

Get a copy of tom's root/boot.  You will be able to boot your box and 
mount the drives in order to access your files.

tslane at attbi.com wrote:
> 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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