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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Thomas Crulli wrote: > i'm actually just trying to get good ol' 1.44 floppies > to work with the LS120 drive. (which have been working > great until now that i'm trying to install debian with > floppies). Won't work. The kernel ramdisk-from-floppy loader seems to be able to only use the primary FDC from what I can tell (without actually verifying code) You'll want to use an actual LS120 (or a 2.88MB floppy if you can still get one of those and IF they'll even work in the LS120 drive. I've only seen three of the things in my entire life) > i almost got it to work by setting root=/dev/hdd but > it then complained that it couldn't mount my root disk > and that it couldn't find init (i think these were for > different things i tried). i later tried to mount the > root disk that i got from the idepci subdirectory of > the frozen 1.44 disks but wouldn't work... > > are the root floppy images supposed to be ext2? i > thought they were but the one i have doesn't seem to > be... The root images are supposed to be FAT, I think in part so the predominant Intel OS can read them, but I know I'm missing most of the reasoning. > thomas > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > > > There's currently no superfloppy support in > > boot-floppies. I'm doing some > > work on it, and I do have a "working" ls120 image > > you can use. There are a > > couple problems with it on my machine at least, and > > you do have to > > manually mount the disk. dbootstrap doesn't know how > > to see it yet. > > > > I'll have it up on > > http://ferret.phonewave.net/boot-floppies/ soon. > > > > I'm hoping I can work it into boot-floppies CVS in > > the next month or two, > > but at least it boots. > > > > Oh yeah, you might be able to make it work by > > zcatting the image to a zip > > disk's partition 4 in a pinch, but I haven't and > > won't try it. > > > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Kenneth Scharf 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 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: 2.6.3ia > > Charset: noconv > > > > > iQEVAwUBORG+H7wBUxk9hu41AQEC8ggAsRCIgdBsVkmE9f3hQ/P4IZ79C02XiLfC > > > xw0DwwS2CiHg3tKLl+fCxfOa6SKkZWGyhmjlqG8NqICpfDeWB51unQWltUiPeASn > > > l8uwrmKRSI0wBEkEpwXPPNk7fswCxvwbyf89vYOYOkaxeVr9R5ecYr8N0W3hNyiH > > > 2y5C/ItYLZCabOBXjHA9ZBMJhPNdjCFSuhT0aKSAE9H3HUw7hMfLcNST0J+JSjGi > > > t0zPE7yH9z4PPNsP+Zd61930WrgyHi0UZl2PDS+AnmEwoYqWuwoWAn8wGeiuBbu6 > > > X+8TMC8T7U3U+djNI8TW95QUUEUQ4G5oMAPWZna5kDCwyQlUvROlkA== > > =nWHV > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! 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