Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Hardware Problem on new Dell Machines

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Mon, October 30, 2006 05:27, Matt Baker wrote:
> Martin Ginkel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> is there anyone with experience with DL on some newer Machines with
>> SATA_PIIX boards.
>>
>>
>> I have (mis)used DL 1.2.10 as boot-system for mass-cloning some
>> standard Linux-installation to our PCs.
>> On these these machines the CDROM was attached to a normal IDE Bus and
>> the harddisk was accessible with the DL after loading the ata_piix driver
>> via the INITRD_MODULES. Everything worked fine.
>>
>>
>> Now we have a new Series (Dell Optiplex 745) were the hardware has
>> changed. The CDROM is now also attached to the SATA, the loading of the
>> piix module fails and the CDROM cannot be found by Devil.
>>
>> Is there a way to work around this problem? Are there updates to the
>> kernel-modules available?
>
> You may also want to try booting from a USB flash drive. Product
> features on the DL home suggest there is "a script to install the entire
> system on an USB pendrive", although I've never tried it.

install-on-usb is the scripts name and it's right in the tarball. ;-)

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