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[Morphix-devel] Easiest Way to Open base/morphix Under a Working Morphix

[Eli M. <ma...@ne...>]

Hi,

sorry for the silly question, but what is the easiest way to open the
file base/morphix under a working system?

I want to extract a file from a Morphix ISO to my working Morphix.
I mounted the ISO (using loop), and now I don't know how to extract the
specific file from the base/morphix file.

Thanks!
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Re: [Morphix-devel] Easiest Way to Open base/morphix Under a Working Morphix

[Brendan S. <bm...@ba...>]

Hi Eli,

On 24/12/2007, Eli Marmor  wrote:
> I want to extract a file from a Morphix ISO to my working Morphix.
> I mounted the ISO (using loop), and now I don't know how to extract the
> specific file from the base/morphix file.

The Manual has an example extract a module and chroot into the mainmodule
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/docbook_html/ar01s07.html#MainModule

However to get a file from the morphix base, get the iso in to a new directory:-
isomorph --get ISO DIRECTORY
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/all_man_pages/html/ar01s06.html

The use module-extractor on the base/morphix file:-
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/all_man_pages/html/ar01s04.html

Hope this helps,
Brendan

[Morphix-devel] Easiest Way to Open base/morphix Under a Working Morphix

[Brendan S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi Eli,

On 24/12/2007, Eli Marmor  wrote:
> I want to extract a file from a Morphix ISO to my working Morphix.
> I mounted the ISO (using loop), and now I don't know how to extract the
> specific file from the base/morphix file.

The Manual has an example extract a module and chroot into the mainmodule
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/docbook_html/ar01s07.html#MainModule

However to get a file from the morphix base, get the iso in to a new directory:-
isomorph --get ISO DIRECTORY
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/all_man_pages/html/ar01s06.html

The use module-extractor on the base/morphix file:-
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/all_man_pages/html/ar01s04.html

Hope this helps,
Brendan

NB Sorry Alex, two messages -  Must change sending email address sometime....

Re: [Morphix-devel] Easiest Way to Open base/morphix Under a Working Morphix

[<al...@de...>]

Hi Eli,

> sorry for the silly question, but what is the easiest way to open the
> file base/morphix under a working system?

There's no such thing as a silly question.

The easiest way is by adding the morphix repository (see
morphix.org/debian) to your system. Then, apt-get update && apt-get
install morphing-tools and use module-extractor to extract the
base/morphix file (see module-extractor --help for details).

You can also use the cloop utilities directly: apt-get install cloop-utils
and use extract_compressed_fs to extract the base/morphix file. The result
is exactly the same.

For further details on morphing, see the howto's on
http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/docbook_html and the command-line
man-pages on http://www.morphix.org/doc/how_tos/all_man_pages/html

cheers,

Alex

Re: [Morphix-devel] Easiest Way to Open base/morphix Under a Working Morphix

[Eli M. <ma...@ne...>]

Thank you Brenden and Alex!

module-extractor didn't work for me (too many error). Instead of trying
to work around the problems, I ran extract_compressed_fs directly, and
then mounted the ISO, and had the file (r8169.ko).

But now I have another problem:

My purpose was to upgrade the driver version of RealTek r8169 Ethernet.
The extracted driver "disagreed" about version of symbol struct_module,
and insmoding it caused "invalid module format".

I also have the latest driver from RealTek, but can't compile it,
because it requires the kernel source tree, which depends on things
that upgrading some of them may damage the system (e.g. new libc).

The current driver - sized 32165 bytes (2.6.17-morphix) - works very
bad under some hardware configurations.

Is there any solution for me, without replacing the entire kernel or
libc?

Thanks,
-- 
Eli Marmor
ma...@ne...
Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd.
__________________________________________________________
Tel.:   +972-9-766-1020          8 Yad-Harutzim St.
Fax.:   +972-9-766-1314          P.O.B. 7004
Mobile: +972-50-5237338          Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel

Re: [Morphix-devel] Easiest Way to Open base/morphix Under a Working Morphix

[<al...@de...>]

Hi Eli,

> Is there any solution for me, without replacing the entire kernel or
> libc?

Did you try the 2.6.22 base-autobuild? (www.morphix.org/autobuilds)

Looking at the autotesting-snapshots this base worked at least for
morphix-game, so it might be worth a shot if you want a newer version.
Simply add your own mainmodule to it.

If you want the 2.6.17 kernel source, you can find it in the morphix
package repository. You'd best compile the driver against the proper
kernel source files, compiling a driver against a different kernel tree
tends to be more trouble than it's worth. Even then you might have to
force the loading of the module with insmod -f.

Good luck!

Alex

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