Jacques et al,
I too had difficulty with needing more space than one diskette would handle
and making a ton of coasters was painful too. So I went on to try 850mb
hard drives and such... But this seemed a bit wasteful, 2mb of data on a
850mb hard drive.
I then found some IDE Disk-On-Modules. They're awesome! I originally
purchased two Nagasaki 8mb modules ( http://www.nagasaki.com.tw/DOM.htm
purchasable here
http://www.bwi.com/scripts/site/site_category.php3/id/188 )and put them into
my IDE port on the motherboard. At first I didn't know exactly how to get
things going on them but it's really simple.
Items needed:
1- LRP system (CPU, MEM, MOBO, etc.)
1- Disk On Module ( duh! )
1- Windows 98 Boot disk ( not a Startup Disk, just a plain old boot
disk )
1- Syslinux Disk w/ syslinux.com ( for DOS ).
http://freshmeat.net/redir/syslinux/10177/url_tgz/syslinux-1.67.tar.gz
Step 1) Boot using the Win 98 boot disk fdisk & format the DOM
Step 2) Reboot
Step 3) type>lock c:<Enter> at the command prompt
Step 4) Insert syslinux disk and type>syslinux this will take a few seconds
and then drop you to a command prompt again.
Step 5) Insert your working LRP disk 1 and type>copy *.* c: it will begin
the copy DO NOT overwrite ldlinux.sys or you're toast.
Step 6) Insert disk 2 ( assuming you have two ) and do the same command
>copy *.*
Step 7) Insert disk 1 again and hit reset, we will now boot up to your LRP
firewall
Step 8) Hit q to exit lrcfg and get to the command prompt in your LRP
firewall
Step 9) Type mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
Step 10) Type edit /mnt/syslinux.cfg change any reference to /dev/fd0 or
/dev/fd0u1680 to /dev/hda1 Ctrl+q to exit y to save.
Step 11) Type umount /mnt
Step 12) Hit Reset
Your new DOM LRP system should boot in about 14 seconds, or at least mine
does and I've got about every package under the sun...
Steve
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