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Re: Adaptec 2940UW Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Drukker)
Wed Nov 20 23:55:48 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:47:05 -0600 (CST)
From: "David M. Drukker" <drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
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Dear Todd,
Thanks for the note. I cruised through a mirror of the redhat site but
could not find the 2.0.25 kernal and nice HOWTO to go with it. Do you
know where I could look for these?
Thanks,
David
-David M. Drukker
drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
ECB 1.116
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Todd Weible wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Oh.
> >
> > If it does boot from floppy,
> > and has been installed to the SCSI drive,
> > AND you can boot with /dev/(scsi device)
> > so that you're started...
> >
> > Remember to go to /usr/src/(linux) and rebuild the kernel with
> > adaptec 2940 support, and reinstall the kernel.
>
> Actually if you do this, it might stop working again. You should first
> download the 2.0.25 kernel, then rebuild it.
>
> Todd
> toddw@cyberhighway.net
>
>
> >
> > See the README in /usr/src/linux(where your linux source tree is)
> > and also read about LILO.
> >
> > You'll end up removing some links, making some new links
> > (/usr/include - according to README)
> >
> > Then /usr/src/linux... make mrproper
> >
> > then make menuconfig (pick all the right options)
> >
> > make dep; make clean; make zImage;
> >
> > Then copy the image to /somethingkernelname
> >
> > edit /etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > run lilo
> >
> > and reboot.
> >
> > (basically)
> >
> > THX
> > -AEF
>
>
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