Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:26:12 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating Message-ID: <200710201826.13505.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5E9E5D7C-608A-4997-BE39-70074A0A93E2@emeraldcityeg.com> References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <200710201607.11221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <5E9E5D7C-608A-4997-BE39-70074A0A93E2@emeraldcityeg.com>
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--nextPart1976632.L0bHNOm1PA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > I should note that these systems are all (a) floppy drive free and > (b) standard IDE/ATA hard drive free (e.g.: booting from RAID) so > everything I do has to be done with .iso -> CD-R burns or a usb flash > drive. If I'd been doing things with a floppy scenario it would > likely have been easier... Hmm, well sysinstall could be modified to load KLDs from arbitary=20 devices, I have a PR to load install.cfg from any disk sysinstall sees=20 (eg floppy, CDROM, DOS disk [ie flash drive]). I did write the original sysinstall patch for loading KLDs in sysinstall=20 so I guess I'm well equipped to update it ;) > In the end, the way I built an install CD was I used a Windows-only > piece of software called UltraISO which allows you to edit .iso > images and add/remove files. I dropped the precompiled .ko driver > into /boot/kernel/ on the downloadable Freebsd boot iso and then > burned a custom boot CD with the right drivers on it. When I boot > from that CD, I load the driver and then continue with the > installation. It all works well from there. That works for drivers that are not already present in the kernel but I=20 believe it doesn't for ones that are already present (eg twa for a=20 9650SE..) I haven't actually tried this so I'm not sure - I'd like to be wrong ;) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1976632.L0bHNOm1PA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHGcKt5ZPcIHs/zowRAt3SAKCfXoZo3bkmt1NZ8ODSDFKOMXcqSACgnYuq mgxgvj2A36YT5OvrSL02spo= =4GGG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1976632.L0bHNOm1PA--
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