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

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you for your kind offer, which I may take you up on a little bit 
later.

It was such a project installing Oracle I shudder at doing it again. I 
just don't have time right now and IIRC the version I'm running being 
several yrs old, and again IIRC was the first Oracle on Linux, and was 
only offered on RedHat.

Anyway please keep me in the queue.

Cordially,
Courtney



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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