Greetings: Slackware 8.1.01 installs easily on our machines with an
IDE HD and IDE CD, booting the CD nicely and installing from the CD,
with the BIOS set properly..
However; the subject machine has an IDE 20gB HD and a __SCSI CD__,
with a BusLogic SCSI card, creating an insurmountable problem - so
far - and maybe forever. <grin> (The card and drive working
flawlessly with the other partitions.)
The drive has 4 Linux partitions; two working with Slack8.0 and one
swap of course.. Previous versions of Slackware utilized two boot
floppies; one booting the selected image and the 2nd with a "root"
file.. No problem.. Worked fine for years..
8.1 is different and the boot from CD works except as above, but
there is a file 'makedisk' that is supposed to circumvent the non CD
problem.. Invoking makedisk, as instructed, with the proper bzImage
entered, in my case scsi.s should work with both an IDE drive and a
BusLogic card, reports much on the screen but does NOT make a boot
floppy.. I tried several other images to no avail.. I tried both cat
and dd transferring the images to /dev/fd0, but apparently a standard
1.44 floppy isn't big enough. I tried formatting the floppies at both
1.68mB and 1.7X, but no joy as far as booting the floppy.. Apparently
bzImage alone is not enough to get things going.
The excellent slackware-HOWTO details perfectly an install as long as
you have an IDE HD _and_ CD.. No other README's shed any light..
As of now I've concluded the only _easy_ way out is to termporarily
fit an IDE CD for the install and then re-fit the SCSI CD.. What do
YOU think??? Appreciate!!
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0 (2.4.18)
Proprietary Formats Unacceptable
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