#8 serial support and kernel 2.4.19
Hey, thanks for this awesome security distro! I have
just about everything working the way I want it, but I
have run into a problem. First, what I have done: I am
running trinux snap-090602image-2.4.19 (with cardbus
support) from a floppy on an old compaq armada 7792dmt
laptop. I plan to use these laptops to monitor the
IDFs on each floor, so I would like dual NICs and
serial support so I can telnet into the
routers/switches etc. I have the dual NICs running
perfectly (one is a 3com model 575, the other a 3com
model 589B) after adding their respective kernel
modules from ones compiled on your site. I then
compiled the 2.4.19 kernel with serial support as a
module. However, there was not enough space on the
disk to include the new module, even after deleting all
unnecessary modules/daemons etc (I used the new module
and your stock 2.4.19 kernel). SO, I copied the floppy
file system onto a 1.68meg formatted diskette and made
it bootable using syslinux. Everything booted fine,
until trinux started looking for packages from the boot
media. It couldn't mount the boot disk, I guess since
it is a 1.68 meg, which is listed as fd0u1680 in the
/dev file system. SO, using the instructions I found
here:
http://www.bernd-roehling.de/trinux/customize.html#LINUXRC
, I edited linuxrc, replacing every instance of "fd0"
with "fd0u1680", but that still didn't work. I am not
familiar with linuxrc, so I can't do much editing
beyond that. What do you recommend? I would like a
few K free on the disk to save config
files/howtos/readmes. I guess the next step is to try
to just remove unneeded binaries from /bin and /sbin in
the initrd.gz filesystem to see if I can free up enough
space. Thanks.
