Gene Smith wrote:
I am attempting to run Bering from a non-bootable CD which requires booting from floppy. I am presently running fine for over a year from two
floppies but would like to have more packages than will fit on my two
floppies. Is there explicit documentation on how to do this? (I found how
to boot Bering from just CD and for Dach. how to boot from floppy and
rest on CD.)
I think all I have to do is still go ahead and make a bootable CD (but can't boot it)
The CD doesn't have to be bootable...it just has to have the packages you want on it.
True, but I went ahead and made it bootable since the documentation just explained making a bootable CD and I wasn't sure exactly what not to include to make it non-bootable, especially on the mkisofs command line.
and tweak my 1st floppy to just get packages from CD instead of 2nd floppy,
...using the PKGPATH setting in the kernel command line. You should setup the PKGPATH= and BOOT= settings as they would be for a bootable CD, and everything should work.
plus add the cd drivers to initrd on my 1st floppy. I think this will
work.
Yes, it should work.
And it did!
Pointers or suggestions most welcomed!
The Dachstein boot disk used for DachsteinCD is probably the closest example to follow, as I believe most Bering users make bootable CDs with a
different bootloader (rather than a bootable CD). The main difference between the Dachstein CD boot disk and one you'll make for Bering will be
the disk size (1440K vs 1680K), and packages (I'd start with a full floppy
version of Bering, while the Dachstein boot disk only has a minimal set of
files for the bootloader, the kernel, and the initial ramdisk). You can
always convert to a 1440K disk and fewer files once you get the system
reading packages off the CD.
I do have a couple of questions still:
1. Should BOOT= point to my floppy since that is what I am actually booting from? (It also seems to work when pointing to the cdrom.) I saw somewhere in the documentation that BOOT= should point to a writable device for package backup and does not really specify the boot device.
2. The Dachstein boot from cd README (and one of Charles' previous posts) talk about search order, i.e., package[:searchorder]. When it says "load multiple packages" does this imply multiple instance of the package name will reside in memory, or does it mean that later packages of a particular name in the search path will overwrite earlier loaded packages with the same name?
Anyhow, my two floppy disk system now uses one floppy and a cd, and it now restarts with no operator intervention if power cycled (no 2nd floppy and hitting enter). Next step, add some more packages to the cd.
Tks, -gene
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