Follow-up:
I Installed STN to my HD as specified below, and verified that it works.
I used Partition Magic to "hide" STN's partition.
I installed Win98 2nd ed.
I "hid" the Windoze partition, un-hid the STN partition, and (having
booted with a "dos" disk - installed System Commander on the STN
partition.
In order to use STN with System Commander - you have to create a
"bullshit" COMMAND.COM file. (It can be anything - a short text message
does fine) This is so System Commander has a "command.com" file to copy
into your FAT based partiton.
Works fine. Now when I call Charter's tech support to beef about
something - I can "reboot" into a win98 system that they know something
about. (They get a bit fussy about other O/S's)
Jim
Jim Harris wrote:
> I've heard a number of beefs about STN working with a hard drive.
>
> 1. It -DOES- work. (I'm using it via Charter Pipline off a H.D. right
> this instant.)
>
> 2. It -IS- fussy. You gotta play its game, its way, or no dice.
>
> Here's the scoop:
>
> 1. You gotta have a working STN floppy system running. If your floppy
> is hozed, you're reading the wrong message.
>
> 2. You'd better not want to be doing anything else with the disk, at
> least at first. (you're going to have to nuke it)
>
> 3. The Linux Loader that STN uses, absolutely INSISTS on being:
> (a) In the FIRST physical partition on the HD. (below cyl 1024)
> (b) The reference to this partition MUST BE the FIRST ENTRY IN THE
> PARTITION TABLE. If it is not the first entry (hda) you're hozed.
> (c) On an IDE drive, on the primary channel. SCSI does NOT work.
>
> 4. Given that, the instructions work, and it loads.
>
> I created the smallest partition it would let me create (8 meg out of
> 4.52 gig.) It is working like a champ.
>
> I do not know that this is true - but I suspect very highly - that
> having done this I could now load Linux (say the latest RH dist.) on the
>
> rest of the drive, and let lilo default boot to STN and choice boot to
> the full-up linux. You could probably also load something like System
> Commander & run Windoze too. However, I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS LAST YET -
> so it might not be exactly true. If someone does try it, let us know.
>
> Jim
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