On Wed, 29 May 2002, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > Well, I'd think that only the floppies being good may not be > sufficient. They'd have to be readable by your 8500/150's > drive, whose heads may not be aligned in the same way of your > 8500/180.
Well, I don't think this would be the case since head alignment shouldn't be a problem reading and writing floppies (if it were, you'd only be able to read/write them in a limited set of drives similar to the one in your computer -- bad!). > To rule out this problem, are you able to get, say, an iso > from LinuxPPC booting on the 180? This may give an indication > if there is any problem with particular boot methods on that > computer. I'll give this a shot whenever linuxppc.org comes back up and let you know. Hopefully it'll come up tonight and I'll be able to give it a shot at work tomorrow. > P.S.: If you indeed can get LinuxPPC installed, you might perhaps try > other bootfloppies (perhaps creating them with the 180's floppy drive > on the 150) or you may install Debian via a chroot installation > (something I've done in the past). This is a possibility, but it just seems kinda hack-ish...kinda like using BootX to get into Linux in the first place. But if it's necessary, I will definitely consider it as a solution. Brian -------------------- Brian M. Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 585.274.3672 (room) 585.455.6464 (cell) http://cynica.lly.org/ "Can you imagine the silence if everyone said only what he knows?" - Karel Capek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
