[ale] CRISIS -> boot/root floppy needed..........

[Robert L. Harris]

Can you boot from CDROM?  The latest Debian-3 CD has alot of great
drivers in it as well as Disk5 has some exotic hardware drivers I
believe.  The standard Debian3 CD's had drivers for my AMI MegaRaid card
I found out last night.  The things you learn when you put in the wrong
CPU type when trying to enable IPv6 support...  (I forgot to run lilo
after moving my kernels around, no bootie....)

Robert

Thus spake Courtney Thomas (ccthomas at flash.net):

> Good Morning !
> 
> I am running RH6.1 because of an Oracle installation and need to leave 
> it alone for now, however, any guidance regarding SPECIFICS of upgrading 
> the OS and Oracle would be appreciated.
> 
> Setup:
> 	bootup uses dpt_i2o		<- OS hard drive scsi driver
> 	oracle uses eata		<- scsi raid driver for oracle
> 	tape drive uses dc390x_ncr	<- scsi tape driver
> 
> Dilemma:
> 	no boot/root floppy, other than a custom one, is going to have the 
> dpt_i2o & dc390x_ncr drivers, since they are non-standard scsi drivers. 
> So, the boot floppy must afford the opportunity to install dpt_i2o at 
> bootup, which is done by mkbootdisk under RH6.1.
> 
> And, once the OS hard drive is up, the eata & dc390x_ncr modules must be 
> installed before unmounting the OS hard drive, to provide quiescent OS 
> and raid hard drives for tape backup. This assumes, of course, these 
> modules would remain available after OS hard drive unmounting.
> 
> But, the aforedescribed boot floppy asks for a root floppy, which is not 
> provided AFAIK by RH6.1. I have more pressing needs than spending 
> unknown hours whittling away on such a root floppy.
> 
> Is there a 'downloadable' root floppy that can meet these requirements ?
> 
> If not, please precisely summarize the most efficient way to create said 
> root floppy.
> 
> Else, what do you recommend ?
> 
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> In response to an article in The Economist entitled Marx After Communism 
> dated 12/21/02,
> 
> ".....we have a president purchased by corporations in a sham election 
> who has put those corporations in charge of their own regulation. A 
> string of corporate scandals has exposed the myth of shareholder 
> control....."
> 
> Mark Spohr	Tahoe City, Ca. [1/18/03]
> 
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