On Tuesday 10 June 2003 15:54, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Greetings: Delay taking time out to visit the hospital taking me away > from this more interesting stuff. <grin> Comments below at request:
Hope all is now well then.. > Hal > > First off, to make matters worse, I note that my distribution > disk does NOT have the /rootdisks directory so that's _one_ reason > I've been in the dark so much.. The other, seemingly, big problem is > that the "reluctant" system has an IDE HD but both CD's are SCSI, > driven by a BusLogic controller.. There is, also, a SCSI scanner, but > I've disconnected it during this mess, and a ZIP250.. Just what is the model number of the Bislogic controller and what is the make and type/model Nr, of the cdrom's. ??? > > Re above; booting from a DRDos702 floppy the BIOS sees the > BusLogic controller OK but doesn't, automatically, assign a drive > letter to either CD.. The IDE HD on this machine does NOT have a Dos > partition, only 3 Linux native and 1 swap, so I'm shot down with > Stevens' instructions as the two images wont fit on a floppy.. Maybe > I'm missing something here - my mind has turned to Jello. :^)... I > have the Dos drivers for Atapi drives and the required mscdex, or > equivalent, but that's no use with a SCSI drive.. I've got to > research this somemore.. > > Trying to boot from the SlackCD with the disk in either of > the SCSI drives and the BIOS set to Boot: SCSI, A, C, it doesn't see > either and goes right into the normal LILO boot of /hda3.. I'm > guessing that the autoboot routine on the CD only works when you set > the BIOS to: CDROM,,,, and the drive is ATAPI-IDE.. So, bottom line, > is that the CD distribution I have installs OK on a pure ATAPI-IDE > machine - which I have already done on another machine. That sounds more like a bios limitation than a slackware problem. Well you could swap disk's around then and install on the machine where it does work, after installing you change the disk back. > > Richard has installed using the boot/root combination from > Slack8.0, but I can't seem to get it working so far.. He's, kindly, > trying to solve that problem.. What happens when you try and which disk do you use as the initial boot disk,? You should be using scsi.s from what i can gather. > > It's rather obvious, that the ./makedisk <filename> > <kernel.img> routine in the distribution doesn't work, even tho I've > tried formatting a floppy to 1720K and 1680K, which the routine is > supposed to do automatically.. Searching google/linux; "makedisk > slackware 8.1" brought several horror stories.. ./makedisk creates a > file in /tmp/xxxx.img - but what to do with that?? Load it with > loadlin? I still have so much to learn.. As i said before, i cant get that to work either, i also said things like that i drop by the wayside thinking i'm just dumb, but it seems not to be the case. > > To me the most unfortunate thing about this is: How can I, > with a straight face, recommend the neighbours switch to Linux?? Have you reasd the Slackware-HOWTO and BOOTING.TXT files, there are quite a few scsi FAQ's there and my just help. > > Sorry this is so long.. > > Hal > > > > I've just executed that line (on a nearby system) and it is now > > > running the installation routine. Note: you may need to change > > > the d: to a different letter (depending on what letter was assigned > > > by DOS to your CDrom). > > > > > > > Is there a way to copy the CDROM's root filesystem to /dev/hdb1 > > > > and alter the default 'scsi.s' bootdisk so that it loads the root > > > > image from /dev/hdb1? rdev? > > > > > > Yes, but it should not be necessary. Just try loadlin.exe > > > (get it from the loadlin zip file in the /kernels directory > > > of the CDrom). Maybe Steven could explain how he would copy the cdrom's root file system to a blank partiton and get it to boot and allow one to install the complete slackware disk series on the same HD.? AFAIK you cant but i could be missing something.!. Or should i say i have never done such a uncommon thing and do say it should NOT be nessasay at all to even think of doing it > > > > The installation runs much faster from hard drive. ;-) > > > > > Cheers, > > > Steven > -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
