Re: custom install disks?

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

>I'm sure this question must have been asked already, but
>I couldn't find it anywhere in the archives or the documentation.

It has, and someday I'll write it up in detail.  ;^)

>When I try to boot the Red Hat 5.0 (or 4.2 for that matter)
>install disk, everything seems to go fine until it gets to the
>scsi section.
>
>At that point I see the messages:
>scsi: 0 hosts 
>scsi: detected total
>
>Or something like that.  Then my computer completely freezes
>up.  I have Linux working on my system currently (with the latest
>kernel), so what I'd like to do is make a custom install disk with
>my working kernel.
>
>Is this possible?

Yes.
Do you want to do this?  Probably not.
Aside from the fact that in can be a bit tricky,
you would then have an old kernel installing
a new one.  Not a terribly good idea, and at
any rate when you actually upgrade you'll
probably want to upgrade the kernel, which
brings you back to this, but now on your
machine, not a a floppy.  Since upgrading the
kernel is at least 33% of the reason I would
have for upgrading at all, I advise either
resolving the scsi problem, not upgrading,
or, if you really want to ignore the scsi and
do this right, compile a new, updated kernel
on your system first, then make new install
floppies with 2.0.32 and no scsi support
(custom kernel made by you, for you).
Upgrade, and use the floppy's kernel.
This process could be more involved than
you want.  Read up on kernel config
and compilation, download the kernel
source tar file from linux.org and knock
yourself out.  If you get a kernel (2.0.32)
compiled, then we'll talk about how to
put it on floppies.

        - Kevin Colby
          kevin marcal com