Re: Booting F8 from USB Attached Hard Drive

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Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:54 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Rick Bilonick wrote:
>>> Thanks. I have tried the live CD's/DVD's but I have a bcm4318 network
>>> card that can use either ndiswrapper or must have Version 4 firmware
>>> in /lib/firmware for the native driver to work. As far as I can tell,
>>> this precludes it from working with a live CD or DVD because I can't
>>> store the firmware in /lib/firmware.
>>>
>> Well, you can temporarily store the firmware, but you will lose it
>> when you reboot. I am not sure exactly how they implement it, but
>> you can add things temporarily after booting from the CD. You also
>> have the option of storing the firmware on the hard drive, and
>> making a link to it after booting the live CD.
>>
>> Mikkel
>> -- 
> I figured that it might be possible to somehow link in the firmware but
> I have no idea how to do it. That's why I wanted to try a flash drive or
> USB hard drive given I could easily modify the distribution. (If I were
> really smart I could spin my own distro with the firmware - but if that
> were the case I wouldn't be here asking these questions.)
> 
> Rick B.
> 
One way would be to have the firmware on a flash drive. Then, after
you boot, ether copy the firmware to /lib/firmware, or create a
symlink to it. (I don't know off hand the firmware name.)
ln -s <path to firmware/firmware name> /lib/firmware/

Mikkel
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  Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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