Helo Sir,
Thank U very much. You said it is possible to format a floppy with
special formatter to get 1.7 MB. I think this will solve my problem
because I found if I add the library files as suggested by Mr Ray, it will
work.
Can you help me how to format a floppy for 1.7MB.
Regards
CJA
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:39:05 -0700
> From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "C.Jagadish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Can floppy act as Linux HardDisk
>
> It is hard to be certain from what you wrote, but it appears that you didn't
> copy enough stuff to the floppy.
>
> 1. You only mention copying files into floppy versions of /etc and /sbin .
> What about /bin? At the least, you need a shell and "login" there (or you
> need to symlink /bin to /harddisk/bin, or you need to change all the shells
> in passwd from /bin/bash to /harddisk/bin/bash).
>
> 2. You should check the rc* scripts and see if any other modifications of
> paths are needed to let them locate other things that are needed to boot --
> crond, syslogd, and sendmail are a few that quickly come to mind.
>
> 3. You say you put into /etc files "like" .... That's too vague for me to
> know if you missed one, but, for example, you don't mention /etc/inittab,
> the file that tells init how to boot up the system at various runlevels.
>
> Fixing all of this may easily exceed the capacity of a floppy disk, even if
> you use a special formatter to get it up to 1.7 megs or so. Are you sure you
> need this approach? You can boot from a floppy and still make the harddisk
> the root filesystem.
>
> At 10:12 AM 6/30/99 +0530, C.Jagadish wrote [in part]:
> >Helo Sir,
> > For some application I want a floppy to act as a linux hardDisk,
> >in doing so I have some problems.
> [rest deleted]
>
>
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