Thanks Adam, I can see how that would be ideal, but with the laptop housing the only (stupid!) LS120 drive, I can't see a way of getting the image onto a disk.
Harry On 04 Nov 2001 13:26:56 -0500, you wrote: >You could try using an LS-120 disk and a 2.88 mb image. Thereby >elimnating the need for a root floppy.... > > >Adam Jacob Muller > >On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 12:53, Harry Palmer wrote: >> I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE >> floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as >> hdd). >> >> Is that me stuffed as far as getting potato up and running? I tried a >> few things with the idepci boot set, but there doesn't seem to be a >> way of getting beyond the first boot floppy and getting the root >> filesystem loaded. Has anybody been here before? >> >> H. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>
