is this just an issue of having an option in the
install script that specifies what device to use for
the floppies or are there more tricky issues?
thomas
--- Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I was trying to install debian (frozen) on my
> laptop
> >the other day but got stuckon the following. i have
> a
> >LS-120 drive (for "superdisks" which is backwards
> >compatible with 1.44MB disks) which i was using to
> >boot the install disk. the
> >images i used were the ones from the idepci
> >subdirectory.
> >
> >the system started booting, the image on the floppy
> >started booting as well
> >until it gave the following message:
> >
> > Insert the root floppy disk to be loaded into
> >RAM disk and press Enter.
> >
> >(or something like that)
> >
> >i tried pressing enter with the disk i had used to
> >boot from since i believe
> >that's all i needed (i was gonna do an harddrive
> >install with base2_2.tgz on
> >another linux partition). i even tried the driver
> disk
> >just in case...
> >nothing seemed to do it...
>
> Actually you need two floppy disk images (at least)
> the boot disk, and the root disk. The boot disk has
> the kernel, the root disk has the rest of the system
> (includes the installer).
>
> However (someone correct me if I'm wrong) the disks
> were written to run on a real floppy NOT off an
> ide-floppy (which the ls120 is) and would probably
> die
> at the point that you tried to insert the the root
> disk and hit return, it would never find the root
> disk
> since it was looking at /dev/fd0, not /dev/hdxx
> where
> the ls120 is! I have never managed to install of an
> ls120 so I still have a floppy in my
> computers.....along with an ls120.
>
> I bet zip drives have the same problem. OTOH
> booting
> off a cd rom drive DOES work....
> am i doing something wrong with the disks i'm using
> or
> is it a problem with the LS-120 support?
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> thomas
>
>
>
>
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