AG writes:
>
> On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I
> did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get
> very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on
> /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming was root, although I am sure that when
> I partitione
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +, AG wrote:
[...]
I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was
able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able
to by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on the HD (/), and
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +, AG wrote:
[...]
> I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was
> able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able
> to by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on the HD (/), and
> then go into LILO.conf and
> However, I cannot locate the HD, and suspect
> that it is under a thin aluminium frame which
> will involve dismantling the entire casing.
> Under the key pad I can see the IDE ribbon and
> connector so can locate the HD - I just don't
> see a viable way of accessing it.
> The laptop
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG
was heard to say:
> On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I
> did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get
> very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on
> /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming wa
On Sunday 01 November 2009 15:19:31 Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Perhaps the local library would have old enough machines to write
> floppies? Is there a LUG nearby that could write floppies for you?
I can write floppies. Let me know what floppy exactly you want, and your
snail mail address (off list, of
AG wrote:
> Could be my lack of clarity in writing and precision in terminology :-)
>
> I was installing Deb testing over a previously installed Slackware
> system due to a number of hardware restrictions. First I downloaded a
> new version of vmlinuz and initrd.gz and moved those into a director
Hi again, AG:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 19:41:16 AG wrote:
> Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> > Hi, AG:
> >
> > On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote:
> >> Tim Tebbit wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
> >> allows HD, CD or floppy).
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
AG put forth on 10/31/2009 12:49 PM:
(3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it
can mount additional files such a USB stick.
AG put forth on 10/31/2009 10:41 AM:
Th
Alex Samad wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG wrote:
Kevin Ross wrote:
[snip]
I took the back completely off this evening and although the CD
drive now spins when a CD is inserted (there's progress), it doesn't
if its an ide interface, why not plug it into a
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +, AG wrote:
> Kevin Ross wrote:
[snip]
>
> I took the back completely off this evening and although the CD
> drive now spins when a CD is inserted (there's progress), it doesn't
if its an ide interface, why not plug it into another hd instead of a
cdrom !
Kevin Ross wrote:
From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca]
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM
i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or
something
with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;)
(it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexpl
> From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM
>
> i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or
> something
> with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;)
> (it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexplorer o
Tim Tebbit wrote:
AG wrote:
Cheers for the suggestions. I may well be up the proverbial creek with
this one. Thanks for the tips re removing the screws - I'll give that a
shot.
Coincidentally - and a long shot - I found an old set of Win3.1
installation floppies whilst looking around for som
AG wrote:
> Cheers for the suggestions. I may well be up the proverbial creek with
> this one. Thanks for the tips re removing the screws - I'll give that a
> shot.
>
> Coincidentally - and a long shot - I found an old set of Win3.1
> installation floppies whilst looking around for something I
Tim Tebbit wrote:
AG wrote:
Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not
(appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway.
Sounds like you are left with physically removing the hdd. Of course you
could try to /wish/ the OS to appear.
AG wrote:
> Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not
> (appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway.
Sounds like you are left with physically removing the hdd. Of course you
could try to /wish/ the OS to appear. :)
You had mentioned the
Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
Hi, AG:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote:
Tim Tebbit wrote:
[...]
(3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it
can mount additional files such a USB
Grub allows editing on-the-fly (when the Grub menu appears, you can
press e and edit Grub stanzas directly). Is there such functionality in
Lilo? I've never used Lilo, unfortunately. Seems to me that sneakernet
(taking your floppy to some other machine with a floppy drive) will be
your only opt
Hi, AG:
On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote:
> Tim Tebbit wrote:
[...]
> (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only
> allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it
> can mount additional files such a USB stick.
Does it support booting
Tim Tebbit wrote:
AG wrote:
Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and
booted.
Thanks for any ideas.
Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple
debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy.
http://www.debian.org/relea
AG wrote:
> Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and
> booted.
> Thanks for any ideas.
Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple
debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:41:44 +, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote:
> On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to
> install Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of
> suggestions were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing
> the pre-ex
Taking the laptop's hard disk and using it as a secondary hard disk on
another computer with mini ide to ide converter would do the trick. If you
have another computer and said converter.
2009/10/31 AG
> On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to install
> Debian on an old
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