Manual Stuff

See also:

Booting Up

Install FAT

Build CD

Manually adding a package to live/root

This is usually done by pkgadd or mklive. See Customizing CD.

$ cd live
$ tar zxf ...*.tgz
$ ash install/doinst.sh
$ ldconfig

Manually installing drivers/modules

This is usually done automatically by hotplug but may need to be done manually.

$ modprobe usb-storage            # add the usb-storage driver
$ fdisk -l                        # show partitions  no USB listed
$ modprobe uhci                    # add uhci    
$ fdisk -l                        # Note /dev/sda - /dev/sda1
$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt2           # Mount a usb device
$ cd /lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/drivers/net
$ ls                            # See what is there
$ modprobe via-rhine            # Add your network driver

Manually setting up your network interface

There is a menu option to do this.

$ ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.xxx up   # Configure and start
$ ifconfig                         # List interfaces
$ route                            # Basic routing should exist
$ route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0  # set default gateway