Hi all, After being a long-time loyal slackware user, I've decided that slackware has become to buggy and antiquated. I've looked around and debian looks like a good bet to me. Soo... here's where the problems begin:
I've a scsi controller (Initio INI-9100 UW) on my machine that isn't supported by the 2.0 proper source tree. However, I found a patch for it, and it has applied cleanly to every kernel source I've tried it on (2.0.32 - 2.0.36) I've even made a boot disk with a kernel that supports this controller. Now, the problem I'm having, is that since this kernel patch seems to never have made its way into the kernel source tree proper, I can't find a debian boot disk that'll recognize my controller. So, I figure, I'll make a root disk that my boot disk can load as a ram disk. Now, I realize I have no clue where I might find the various thing I may need to be part of this root disk. Is there anywhere I can find such a root disk, or is there some way I can "reverse engineer" the rescue.bin boot disk in order to extract from it the install utility? any help would be much appreciated... -Pete Rijks http://www.nd.edu/~prijks \|/ Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering -*- University of Notre Dame (Class of 2000) /|\
