In article <jPGdnb95ZOKlQpreRVn-jg@trueband.net>,
+Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.netWORK> wrote:
>In alt.os.linux.slackware, Dave Vandervies dared to utter,
>> So, I have a newly-acquired laptop that
>> doesn't have a CD drive.
>>
>> (The short version: I decide to try to install from a USB disk,
>> but there's no boot disk that supports it in the distribution, and I'm
>> having trouble making my own, so I need some suggestions for how to make
>> it work.)
>
>IIRC, bare.i does some checking for USB devices, but it may not check
>for a USB CD-ROM.

I'll have to check that. Though I fear that it's only USB input devices
and not storage.

> I'm not sure what kernel-level support you need for
>that.

The USB storage driver makes devices visible as SCSI disks, so the kernel
needs to be able to speak USB to the device (core USB + USB storage)
and to speak SCSI to the USB storage driver (core SCSI + SCSI disk/CD).



>> So it looks like I can figure out how to make NFS work on my workstation
>> (which probably isn't worth the effort for something that I'd rather not
>> have running once I'm done the install anyways), or I can figure out a
>> way to do a non-networked, non-CD install.
>
>NFS is probably the easiest way to do this actually.

Perhaps I'll have to try that, then. Though it means finding another two
good floppies for the network and pcmcia disks, which could be a problem
(the stack of 10-ish I started with only had three good ones).

I also have hazy memories from the Distant Past when I last tried to get
NFS working of running into trouble with an nfsd that wanted to talk to
the kernel's NFS acceleration support, which the kernel didn't have,
so if I don't have a user-space nfsd available it will involve rather
more mucking about with the workstation than I care to get into.


>On your workstation: edit /etc/exports. It should look something like
>this:
>
> /PATH/to/slackware 192.168.1.0/24(sync,ro)
>
>Now follow these easy steps:

Looks easy enough if things Just Work the way they're supposed to.



>I don't have experience with many USB peripherals, so I can't help you
>there. Sorry. :-(

All I've ever used is storage devices, and with a kernel that's configured
with support for them they Just Work. The problem is booting off a
floppy with a kernel that's configured with support for them.


dave

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Dave Vandervies dj3vande@csclub.uwaterloo.ca

I wonder how it work on me, since I used to take Ritalin as a _downer_.
--Jeff Shultz in the scary devil monastery