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

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you for helping.

Yes, I can boot from CDROM.

Will it let me simply bootup without forcing me into an install routine ?

Where can I find the fastest download for Debian-3 CD, please ?

Cordially,
Courtney



Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 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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