Hi Everyone, Just thought I'd let you all know that i just setup 'Bering' to boot from an IDE IOMEGA Zip Drive.
Boots fairly quickly still (well not as quickly as the CD, but still much faster than the floppy) Its a fairly straight forward process (Its pretty much all covered in the User Documentation under Booting other IDE devices) Note: You'll want to make sure that your PC Bios can boot from IDE Zip drive before you start Here is how i done it. *** Prepared disk content (i.e made a fully functional dual floppy setup) *** Copied the module ide-mod and ide-floppy to /boot/lib/modules and backed up initrd. ((Note: I already had ide-mod as i added CDROM support in the dual-floppy setup, so you might need more modules, {follow the unresolved symbols, luke})) *** Created directory on windows box (c:\bzip) and copied disk(s) contents to that location *** Deleted LDlinux.sys from c:\bcd ((this is recreated on the zip disk by syslinux.com later on)) *** Download syslinux from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ >> I got syslinux 2.0 and it worked, don't know if this was a bad move, oh well *** In DOS, Ran syslinux.com -s d: ((d is the drive letter of my zip drive)) *** Edited syslinux.cfg and changed references to /dev/fd0u1680 to /dev/hdb (( I have a CDROM on /dev/hda)) {Note: Don't use notepad for this! I don't know if you can use edit.com either ((may be wrong)). I always use 'ae' or 'vi/vim' on a linux box to do this, If you don't have a linux box use your bering firewall} *** Copied all floppy disk(s) content to Zip Disk ((except ldlinux.sys which is already on the zip)) *** Booted Zip Disk in Firewall Machine... Hope this helps... Jay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html