Dear Kevin,
Here's another way: Use a floppy and CD-ROM. My being a linux newbie I can
still give you one way to do this.
Start with a Win95 boot floppy and call a generic IDE CD driver & CDROM.SYS.
This will allow the CD-ROM to mount. Then, as you start linux, this will flush
the DOS from memory, and off you go.
You can get a Win95 & Win98 floppy image from
<http://www.bootdisk.com>.
Note: The Win98 creates a small RAM disk and uncompresses some of the DOS
utilities. However, it also has all of the IDE & SCSI drivers ready to go.
With the Win95 boot floppy, you have to manually copy the IDE drivers and
invoke them in CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT...
[I *think* the pure linux equivalents are MILO (Mini Loader) and LILO (Linux
Loader.]
Hope this helps!
Dan
PS: At least I know my way around NT! :)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] PPPoP DachStein Firewall going to two disk
>
>
>Thanks Dan, I was looking for a cheaper way as I have three old ide cdroms
>collecting dust.
>Since the mobo does not support cdrom boot, I went back to two floppies. Boy
>was this a mistake for me.
>
>I started at 8:30 AM today and still do not have it working like the old
>Eiger 2 disk set-up.
>
>Charles - once I added the multi298.lrp and rebooted, the backup script is
>the one from Eiger and the boot process does not show the lrp packages
>loading from the /dev/fd0u1680, it shows them on one line as in Eiger.
>
>How can we have two floppy disk support with DachStein for us with no cdrom
>boot support?
>
>I extracted the boot floppy from version 1.0.2 and used WinImage to write to
>a floppy. It would boot part ways and then ask something about an init level
>process to run. I tried 0-8 and no go on any one, just froze the system,
>rebooted, tried next number, etc.
>
>Then I went to Ken's single PPPoP floppy image. Was able to get it to work,
>however I need ssh, oidentd and junkbuster on my router. The single floppy
>does not have enough space, so I tried the multi298.lrp and it worked, two
>floppy boot system! Tried Putty, can not ssh into the box. Dang!
>
>I booted with the old Eiger 2 floppy set-up and bam!!! everything works like
>it should. (ssh, oidentd, dhcp, pppop)
>
>Any help from the list on how to get DachStein with two floppy set-up
>running? Anything I did wrong?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 5:01 PM
>To: #LEAF ListSERV
>Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] PPPoP DachStein Firewall going to two disk
>
>
>
> Dear Kevin,
>
> Yes, you *can* boot from a CD; but you'll need a SCSI
>controller with a BIOS
>chip (or support for AIC-78xx or 53c8xx in the mobo BIOS) and a SCSI CD/ROM
>deck. There's plenty of 4X Apple SCSI CD/ROM decks lying around, which work
>perfectly.
>
> Cheers!
> Dan
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kevin
>>Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 3:31 PM
>>Subject: [Leaf-user] PPPoP DachStein Firewall going to two disk
>>
>>Anyone have any clues as what to try next? I really need the two floppies
>>and no my motherboard does not support booting from CD Rom as I have fought
>>all day with this.....
>
>
>
>
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