John
As an added bonus, it looks really sleek on the desk with nothing plugged into it
except a power cable and network cable.
Craig
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 05:57:50 Burton, John R wrote:
><chuckle>...
>
>Now *THERE's* ingenuity! Sounds like "the old days" of hobbyists and the
>quick thinking on your feet we had to do then.
>
>*GOOD IDEA*, Craig... A little deviousness never hurt ANYONE...
>
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>Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] Problems installing STN on a hard disk
>partition
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>Bob
>
>Just a thought, but you could do as I have done and mount the floppy drive
>*inside* the case, especially if you have a rear drive bay under the PS.
>This prevents anyone from grabbing the diskette without disasmbling the
>whole machine first.
>
>Craig
>
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:46:22 Bob Selby wrote:
>>OK I followed the procedure in the FAQ to the letter and LINUX boots OK, to
>a point...
>>
>>Just after the message "VFS: mounted root (minux file system)"
>>I get the error "end_request: I/O ERROR, dev 02:00, sector 0"
>>then "No configuration files (----) found!"
>>then it halts.
>>
>>There is nothing wrong with the hard disk (no bad sectors) and STN runs on
>this machine (from
>>floppy) on a regular basis without problem.
>>
>>There are two other partitions on the disk (both inactive at this time).
>>
>>Interestingly, if I put the floppy into the drive while it is booting from
>the hard disk but before
>>it reaches the above point - it works OK !!! but reads files from the
>diskette rather than the
>>HD.
>>
>>Could it be that the load system is looking for files specificaly on A: ???
>and if so how can I get
>>around it ??
>>
>>Any advice very welcome.
>>
>>PS Before anyone asks - Yes ! I do need to boot from HD - for security
>reasons. The STN machine
>>is "exposed" and even a floppy lock is considered risky. Removing the
>diskette after boot is not
>>an option either as I often need to tweak the configuration remotely on the
>fly and reboot.
>>
>>Rgds,
>>Bob
>>
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