Re: 911 - Rescue!

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:28 23-8-2001 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> "Orn E. Hansen" wrote:
>
> >   Now, here is when I really needed to be able to call 911 ... so I 
> went onto
> > oss.sgi.com and found release 1.0.1... unfortunately I don't have CD burner
> > so I looked for boot disk and driver disk... and I found it, so I 
> thought my
> > days were now made easy.  In with the boot disk, 'linux dd' added a driver
> > disk... in with the drivers... CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a console, ALT-F2 for 
> a new
> > console, and modprobe xfs ... oobs, no go.  So, I looked over the list of
> > drivers ... but there was no xfs driver there.
>
> With all of the other things that need to be on the boot & driver disks,
> there wasn't room for the xfs modules - it's in the second stage image.
> One thing you might be able to do is set up a network install, either
> locally, or pointing out to the web?  I think there is a full install
> tree on ftp.thebarn.com.
>
> It might also be possible to add filesystem drivers to a new driver
> disk, but I'm not certain - the driver disk only handles certain types
> of drivers, and filesystems may not be an option...
>
> There are also some people who have created root/boot XFS disks, I
> believe - check either the News link or the mailing list archives.
It's in the faq.


Cheers
ps Reading with a cracked LCD display sucks.


--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.