Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Russ Cox]

don't mk the kernel directly.
instead do

	cd /sys/lib/pcdist/disk
	mk ndisk

and the right things will happen.
alternately, you could mk boot.bz2
and then go back to the kernel directory.

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Sam Ducksworth]

thanks i will give that a try.

> don't mk the kernel directly.
> instead do
>
> 	cd /sys/lib/pcdist/disk
> 	mk ndisk
>
> and the right things will happen.
> alternately, you could mk boot.bz2
> and then go back to the kernel directory.

--sam

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Lucio De Re]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> 	cd /sys/lib/pcdist/disk
> 	mk ndisk
> 
Many of the items in /sys/lib/pcdist/... seem to be missing, how do
they normally get in there?  Is my installation at fault?

++L

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Russ Cox]

	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/bargraph
	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/cdsh
	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/ext2srv
	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/tailfsrv

these would have come over from

	/sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386

but you need to put them there by doing

	cd /sys/lib/pcdist/cmd
	mk install
	for (i in bzfs ext2 gzfs) @{
		cd $i
		mk install
	}

perhaps i'll automate more of this next time.

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Lucio De Re]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:22:56PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> these would have come over from
> 
> 	/sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386
> 
My bad, I see they do get put in .../boot/...

> but you need to put them there by doing
> 
> 	cd /sys/lib/pcdist/cmd
> 	mk install
> 	for (i in bzfs ext2 gzfs) @{
> 		cd $i
> 		mk install
> 	}
> 
> perhaps i'll automate more of this next time.

This bit can just be added to your original message.  It is astounding
how much useful work you folks have put in the distribution that
seldom gets the recognition it deserves.  Little things like these
make a big difference.

++L

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Louis Beleos]

Also please note that the recipe for ndisk references file
/sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386/pbs, which doesn't exist.
This probably should read just /386/pbs.
(At least this was true when first reported in June, 2001.)

Louis

Russ Cox wrote:
> 
>         /sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/bargraph
>         /sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/cdsh
>         /sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/ext2srv
>         /sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/tailfsrv
> 
> these would have come over from
> 
>         /sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386
> 
> but you need to put them there by doing
> 
>         cd /sys/lib/pcdist/cmd
>         mk install
>         for (i in bzfs ext2 gzfs) @{
>                 cd $i
>                 mk install
>         }
> 
> perhaps i'll automate more of this next time.

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Lucio De Re]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:48:37AM -0700, Louis Beleos wrote:
> 
> Also please note that the recipe for ndisk references file
> /sys/lib/pcdist/bin/386/pbs, which doesn't exist.
> This probably should read just /386/pbs.
> (At least this was true when first reported in June, 2001.)
> 
Yep, that seemed obvious, once I got there :-)

++L

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Russ Cox]

> Many of the items in /sys/lib/pcdist/... seem to be missing, how do
> they normally get in there?  Is my installation at fault?

depends. what's missing?

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Lucio De Re]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:37:04PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> > Many of the items in /sys/lib/pcdist/... seem to be missing, how do
> > they normally get in there?  Is my installation at fault?
> 
> depends. what's missing?

.../386/pbs, for example?  There were others when I first tried (I can
'mk clean', I suppose, and retry) that weren't fatal but may be later,
of course.

Happy to try again, if it helps.

++L

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Lucio De Re]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:05:18PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:37:04PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > Many of the items in /sys/lib/pcdist/... seem to be missing, how do
> > > they normally get in there?  Is my installation at fault?
> > 
> > depends. what's missing?
> 
> .../386/pbs, for example?  There were others when I first tried (I can
> 'mk clean', I suppose, and retry) that weren't fatal but may be later,
> of course.
> 
> Happy to try again, if it helps.
> 
Here are the others:

	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/bargraph
	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/cdsh
	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/ext2srv
	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/tailfsrv

and I screwed up

	/n/kremvax
	/usr/glenda

/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/pbs was fatal, so there may be others
that haven't been reported.

++L

Re: [9fans] Installation floppy

[Lucio De Re]

Oops: a /disk too many in each of these:

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:17:12PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> 
> 	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/bargraph
> 	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/cdsh
> 	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/ext2srv
> 	/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/bin/386/tailfsrv
> 

++L

[9fans] Installation floppy

[Sam Ducksworth]

i was trying to build my own install floppy and encountered the
following problem:

term% mk 'CONF=pcflop'
rc ../port/mkdevc pcflop > pcflop.c
mk: don't know how to make '/sys/lib/pcdist/disk/root.bz2'

am i missing an rc script in my distro?

--sam