trinux-talk

Re: [Trinux-talk] Howto make a bootable CD (ISO) with PCMCIA support?

[David G. M. <dgl...@gm...>]

>From: "Matthew Franz" <mat...@ya...>
>To: "David GLAUDE Mailing" <dgl...@gm...>
>Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] Howto make a bootable CD (ISO) with PCMCIA
support?


Summary: I try to boot Trinux ISO CD on a laptop => need to modify the CD.

> Here's something to try with the exiting CD-ROM but I think.
> Unfortunately, there are still a lot of
> problems with CD-booting on laptops (especially if you
> don't have a floppy drive).

Booting Knoppix ISO CD on my laptop work nicely.

> I believe the pcmcia module packages are on the CD-ROM
> -- can't remember exactly where off the top of my
> head, but they should be with all the others. Anyway,
> after it loads -- go the the directory and a do
>
> #pkgadd pcmcia-xirc2ps
> #pkgadd pcmcia-coremods
> #pkgadd pcmcia-bin

Strange, the two first are on the CD,
but not pcmcia-bin (wich is only on the pcmcia floppy)...

> then
> # /etc/init.d/pcmcia    this should definitely get the
> modules loaded and kick off card manager

/etc/init.d does not contain pcmcia...
Maybe because I don't have pcmcia-bin.

> > I was wondering if I just need to mount the iso
> > (losetup on /dev/loop0),
> > remove the image of the floppy from the original iso,
> I don't think that will work, because I think it ISOs
> are only read only.

Yes, but I mount it, tar it, untar somewhere else,
then work on that copy to modify it.

Work in progress, I will keep you updated if I have a working solution.

[Trinux-talk] FAILURE: Making a bootable CD (ISO) with PCMCIA support...

[David G. M. <dgl...@gm...>]

In an attempt to build a Trinux ISO CD with PCMCIA support,
I have done the following.
1) Take the original iso "trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso".
2) Mount it throught a loopback
    losetup /dev/loop0 trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso
    mount /mnt/cdrom /dev/loop0 -t iso9660
3) Tar the countent into a file and untar somewhere else
    (this is because iso9660 is read only)
4) Remove the boot.img file.
5) Insert next to the directory the file "trinux-0.80rc2-pcmcia.img" renamed
as boot.img.
6) use the "Unix shell script" to build a new iso file.
7) Burn on a CD and try.

As expected the CD boot,
but I get message that we only support vfat and minix for locating the
package,
where my package are obviously on an iso9660.

I also attempted to boot the normal "trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso" and
start the pcmcia stuff by hand, but the CD does not contain the package
"pcmcia-bin" nor "/etc/init.d/pcmcia".

I may be more lucky by having a copy of the CD "trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso"
on my hard disk (vfat) and "merge"(???) it with the content of
"trinux-0.80rc2-pcmcia.img".

I need the following help:
 1) Where are the source to rebuild "trinux-0.80rc2-pcmcia.img" with iso9660
support.
 2) In the futur would it be possible to insert that iso9660 support by
default.
 3) If I want to merge the tux directory of the ISO (cd) and the IMG
(floppy),
     wich version should overwrite the other.

Any other suggestion are welcome.

David GLAUDE

PS: I try to boot WITHOUT a floppy drive (I have one but not always
available).