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Dual Booting with VERY minimal installs
voidmain:
The "bootnet.img" or "pcmcia.img" floppy that you create from the RedHat CD contains the network drivers. One disk contains all you need to start a network installation (assuming you have a compatible PCMCIA card). You can then install via an FTP, HTTP, or NFS server (preferably on your local network).
Calum:
hey that's pretty flash right enough! i wonder if mandrake has anything like that (i will check it out) and i wonder if the stuff on the pcmcia disk can be slapped onto the hard drive to be used as normal with, for instance, basiclinux.
good ideas...
meanwhile, i was trying to download the ide kernel from here but it looks as if it needs me to compile it. i can't do that on one machine and then copy it onto the ohter can i? is it okay to compile a kernel on linux 2.4 and then just stick it into /boot on the basiclinux machine? as i said, basiclinux just wants me to 'copy the kernel into /boot' which doesn't seem to work for me.
kernels still confuse me. here's the spec for the basiclinux kernel, and this appears to be the same config file that comes with that ide kernel i just mentioned. does this mean (yes, i am slow!) that this file is the 'shopping list' that tells make what to include in the kernel? if this is the case (and if i knew anything about kernels) then shouln't i be able to download the source of that kernel and recompile using make after editing this config file?
of course there's a lot of other weird steps that i must somehow miss out as i haven't managed to config a kernel properly yet. if only it were as simple as cding into the directory and typing 'make'.
So. what's best re: kernel then? i suppose i will just have to download likely binary kernels if i can, unless i can get this one to work somehow.
Once i get lilo sorted i will start kernelling.
Calum:
so how much should a second hand CD drive cost then? and which of those ports should it connect to? the parallel one?
also, what the hell is that docking port for?
Calum:
hello again. well i made an image of the trinux pcmcia.img bootdisk, and it seems to have the driver for my pcmcia card on it. (edit - haven't tried it but that's what it looks like, i am almost certain of it) its kernel is a BzImage though, and i notice that basiclinux has a Zimage kernel. I presume that there's no easy hack where i can just copy some files somewhere and expect it to all work...
so how do i get this module to work in basiclinux? as i say, i don't have the source for the kernel, but i could get it off the slackware site i am sure, and recompile (except that i tend to fail at recompiling) and i'd have to do it using the mandrake machine. the driver itself appears to be a file called xircsomenumbers.tgz containing a file called xircsomenumbers.o which seems very simple to me. Just not sure if it's at all compatible. if i recall, trinux uses a 1.3 kernel, rather than the 2.0 kernel that basiclinux uses.
oh well, am i on the right track? or any track? am i whistling in the dark? should i just give up and get a 'real' distro? what the hell do i think i'm doing anyway? for the answers to these and other questions, tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel for more from calum's thrilling (but ambling) monologue about how little he knows about linux when it all comes down to it!
[edit] re: getting the kernel source, what? i can't make sense of this! why don't they at least have a readme in there!? oh woe et c...
[edit]hey! looks like this 5MB thing is the kernel! how come the binary is 454kB then? i am confused... i certainly can't put 5MB on a floppy...
[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
voidmain:
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[ November 29, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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