Re: Intimate/debian on 3900

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:16:21AM -0800, William Moser wrote:
> I just bought a 3955 and I'm toying with Intimate on
> it. No luck so far--it insists the zimage file name is
> too long., which isn't the case. I'll try different
> bootloaders later.

I've had this problems. I could solve it by doing the following on my
desktop machine:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/card -t msdos
cd /mnt/card/boot
mv zimage z
cp z zimage
rm z

where /dev/sda1 is the CF card in my card reader, of course.

When I found out that the above works, I really didn't expect it to
work, but the difference between "vfat" and "msdos" is that
vfat handles long file names and the error is related to long file
names, so I thought I'd try it, and it worked. (Maybe the same
procedure would work using vfat too. I haven't tried that.)

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                                                Niklas