Re: RH 9 install - can I use fdisk within the install program?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht comcast net>]

Rick,
   Great set of instructions. I'll be working on this tomorrow and will
report back how it goes.

Thanks very much,
Mark

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 15:57, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>Disk druid may not support "simulated" SCSI drives (like the 1394).
> >>That requires the "sg" driver.  You could install and use fdisk to
> >>partition it, as you said fdisk sees it.
> > 
> > 
> > Is this a driver that can be somehow passed to Linux Install at the command
> > line so that it could see the 1394 drive?
> 
> It's already there, since fdisk can see the drive.  I don't think disk
> druid will talk to "sg" drives.  You can install and use fdisk to do
> the partitioning rather than DD and since fdisk _can_ see the drive, you
> may get by that way.
> 
> > One other thought. The machine already has everything on the EIDE drive. Can
> > I somehow just copy the partitions from the EIDE drive to the 1394 drive,
> > and then make a new fstab file that replaces hda5 with sda3, etc? I might
> > have to blow away /var or something, but that wouldn't bother me at all.
> 
> I think that'd work.  You may have to rebuild the initrd image and
> force-feed it the sg driver because once the basic system comes up, it
> will "pivotroot" to /, and since that's on the 1394 drive, you'll need
> the sg driver to see it.
> 
> After building the system and copying your /, /usr, and /var to the 1394
> drive, do an "lsmod" and get a list of all the modules needed for the
> 1394 to work, then rebuild initrd via:
> 
> 	cd /boot
> 	mkinitrd -f [--with=module ] initrd-version.img version
> 
> e.g.
> 
> 	mkinitrd -f --with=sg --with=sr_mod initrd-2.4.20-9.img 2.4.20-9
> 
> 
> (repeat the "--with=" for each module you think you need).  mkinitrd is
> supposed to read /etc/modules.conf (to include any SCSI modules you
> need) and /etc/fstab (to get a list of modules necessary to support
> the root filesystem, e.g. ext3 and such) before writing the image, but
> I don't know how reliable that is.  You can also add a "-v" to get it to
> spew messages about what it's doing and make sure the needed modules get
> in there.
> 
> > I know nothing of doing this, other than the standard part of starting Linux
> > where it asks you if you want to do things like this...
> > 
> > 
> >>I think it's an "sg" issue, not a SCSI issue (I've installed HUNDREDS of
> >>RHs on SCSI drives).
> > 
> > 
> > I'll do some googling. Thanks!
> 
> Good luck, kemosabe!
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