Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a "normal" floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days.
Paul On 01-Mar-98 C.J.LAWSON wrote: > Hi, > This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help. > It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of > the possibility of putting a minimal installation (<90Mb) on a 120Mb disk > drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second > floppy disk drive on the machine which could then be mounted as the > utility floppy drive.... The (non-x) possibilites apear to be endless with > such. > I wonder what your thoughts about this are ... > > Regards > > Jonathan > > On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. >> > However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity >> > floppy) and no "normal" floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin >> > (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 >> > will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem >> > is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, >> > the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install >> > Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. >> > >> > Any ideas how to overcome this? >> >> Perhaps by copying resc1440.bin from this LS drive to the HD, toghether with >> loadlin; And running loadlin to boot into Linux ? -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
