Re: [linrad] Live-CD with floppy storage

[wb9uwa@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Josh,

I sent a reply to you direct on this one.
Did you get it?

73, Jim Shaffer, WB9UWA.

On 19 Oct 2003 at 0:28, Josh Logan wrote:

> 
> Thanks for giving this a try and letting us know the results.  Since
> there are so many hardware combinations there may be some hardware
> which is just not supported, or not supported yet.
> 
> See below for some comments and questions.
> 
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 wb9uwa@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have breifly tried both versions of Live-CD on two different
> > computers (that is the first version without the floppy and the
> > second version with the floppy). With either version, my Compaq
> > Presario 5441 475 Mhz PC, Live does not find the sound card at all.
> > It is a sound card built in to the mother board. The complaint is:
> > modprobe:modprobe: Can't locate module sound - slot -0
> > modprobe:modprobe: Can't locate module sound - service 0-0
> 
> There is a chance the CD does not support this sound card.  If you
> find out what sound card it has we can check to see if the kernel has
> support, and see if a new module can be built.
> 
> > When I try to use it, Linrad hangs up.
> > My second PC is an IBM Thinkpad 760 with a 133 Mhz CPU.
> > I can not yet get it to boot from the CD.
> 
> You can try to make a boot floppy:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/morphixboot_02.img?download
> 
> Once you have that on a floppy boot off that floppy with the CD in the
> drive.  I have not tested this yet, but it should get you going.
> 
> >
> > A friend of mine has a more powerful laptop PC and it seems to have
> > issues with Live-CD as well. There are complaints of missing
> > directories.
> 
> What directories?  I know it complanes about some missing files (nls
> kernel modules), but I don't know of any errors that stop it from
> booting and starting.  If you can send me the errors I can try to
> track those down.
> 
> >
> > 73, Jim Shaffer, WB9UWA.
> 
> 73, KD7HGL
> 
>        Later, JOSH
> 
> 
> >
> > On 7 Oct 2003 at 19:05, Josh Logan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Looks like a lot of people tried the old version of the CD. 
> > > Following some of Leif's suggestions I have made some changes that
> > > I hope make it work on more machines, and let you save your
> > > parameters.
> > >
> > > This version is CD/floppy combo.
> > >
> > > The CD image is down to 10M and does not have linrad or SVGA
> > > files. The floppy holds linrad and the SVGA files.  This way you
> > > can also save your parameter files.  Also to upgrade to a new
> > > version of linrad or SVGA files you just change the floppy image.
> > >
> > > When you boot up it will pause and ask you to put the floppy into
> > > the drive.  This will also let you see if the computer booted
> > > correctly before starting any SVGA programs.  Also see note 1
> > > below.
> > >
> > > All of the files are located under:
> > > http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~josh/linrad/
> > >
> > > Here are the new files:
> > > http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~josh/linrad/Morphix-linrad-0.1.iso
> > > (10.4M)
> > > http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~josh/linrad/linrad-01.07_svga-1.9.17.imag
> > > e (431k)
> > > http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~josh/linrad/linrad-01.07_svga-1.9.17.imag
> > > e.gz (1.4M)
> > >
> > > I have both a .gz floppy image and full size image.  Maybe this
> > > should just be a zip of the files, but I like being able to make
> > > the disk under linux.  I have the .gz version because it is a lot
> > > smaller, but you need winzip or similar on windows to uncompress
> > > it.
> > >
> > > I also have a copy of rawwritewin to make the floppy
> > > http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~josh/linrad/rawwritewin-0.7.zip
> > >
> > > Under linux to make the floppy the commands are:
> > > superformat /dev/fd0 (may not be needed)
> > > gunzip linrad-01.07_svga-1.9.17.image.gz (if you get the .gz
> > > image) dd if=/linrad-01.07_svga-1.9.17.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=21k
> > >
> > >
> > > Please let me know how this version works.  Or if you need more
> > > information on setting up the flopp.
> > >
> > > The sound modules are the same as the last image, but SVGA has
> > > been upgraded so it should support more graphics cards.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to have both the linrad and svga version in the file
> > > name so we can make a SVGA 1.4.3 version, if that works better on
> > > some machines.
> > >
> > > 73, KD7HGL
> > >
> > >        Later, JOSH
> > >
> > >
> > > NOTE 1:
> > > You could also switch to Alt-F3 and use a USB device instead of a
> > > floppy. Here are the commands: insmod usb-storage mount /dev/sda1
> > > /mnt/test cd /mnt/test ./linrad Not very well tested, but it does
> > > work...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > NOTE 2: You can use this floppy with the original CD
> > > Make the floppy, then boot off the old CD.
> > > Run the following commands:
> > > Alt-F3
> > > mount /mnt/floppy
> > > cd /mnt/floppy
> > > ./linrad
> > >
> > > Make sure you use ./linrad or you will run with the old SVGA and
> > > not save your files to the floppy.  Please let me know how this
> > > works.  If it looks up while booting please try running "morphix
> > > noscsi" on the initial boot screen to turn off SCSI detection.
> > >
> >
> >
> >


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