[3257] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Re 3c905c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Jan 6 01:05:39 2001
Message-Id: <200101060605.BAA02143@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:59:22 EST."
<200101060559.AAA12653@tom.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:05:35 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Given that I don't have access to the IS cluster install floppies, I
>> really can't speak for what's on them (or perhaps it's just that I
>> don't know where they are).
/mit/install/rhlinux will contain the etherboot source that is used
to build the install floppies we use for clusters.
However, there seems to be some confusion about what's actually on
those floppies. They do not contain the 3c90x driver in the sense
you're thinking of it. They do not, in fact, contain a linux kernel at
all. All they contain is an etherboot ROM image with enough brains to
have the ethernet card tftp a miniroot consisting of kernel + ramdisk
from a user specified server (tae-kwon-leap in our environment).
It's the miniroot that will contain support for the card or not;
information about its construction is located in
/mit/install/rhlinux/miniroot/. I know very little about how the
miniroot we have was constructed; that was tb's ball of wax while he was
still here.
Garry
