Civileme....so I guess we agree that mkbootdisk can't/won't make a boot
floppy on an ls-120, right? ;-)
Alan
Civileme wrote:
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Civileme....please give me the steps to make a boot disc with my ls-120
> > [hda]. I've never been able to, though if I make the boot disc on a
> > regular 1.44 floppy drive then the ls-120 [hda] will boot the system
> > just fine using it (albeit verrrryy slowly).
> >
> > Alan
>
> Oooops!
>
> Sorry, I can't give you any steps
>
> I had the system with HDD on /dev/hda, ls120 as /dev/hdc, and cdrom as /dev/hdd
> NO FLOPPIES were on the system. And the BIOS had "not present" for Floppy 1/A
>
> I set the boot as A, C, SCSI in the BIOS
>
> I installed L-M normally using a boot disk I had made to get dos with CD support,
> then
>
> e:
> cd\dosutils
> autoboot
>
> And when it asked if I wanted to make a boot disk, I said "yes"
> Freeze
>
> After the next install, I used DOS and rawrite (DOS saw it as A:) for boot.img, and
> I decided it was easier to manufacture boot floppies from a "good" floppy drive.
>
> Normally, I operate with the LS120 defined twice in /etc/fstab, once as /dev/floppy,
> and once as /dev/hdc. Minor modification to the properties of the mount icons seems
> to work well enough for mount/umount as a floppy. I think I have a cartridge around
> somewhere. but mostly I use the LS120 for floppy operations because the results
> writing on one machine and reading on another still work six months after placing in
> service. I have so many MACs and PCs here which cannot talk to one another (or
> sometimes even to themselves) via floppy, that I am persuaded the fall of floppy
> drive prices has damaged floppy drive quality.
>
> So what you are looking for specifically might well require some modification of the
> source and a recompile... And of the kernel at that. Since I now have 7 systems of
> 16 using LS120s and NO floppies, It might be a project for me once I finish the
> migration and training for users here. (Lot more time-consuming than it looks, and
> largely a personnel job.) On the other hand, it is relatively easy to make a
> bootable CD or to use the distro CD as a boot/rescue disk, so maybe not.
>
> And I agree making a boot floppy from an LS120 drive in linux might be beyond the
> current software. Making a bootable LS120 cartridge.... Well plenty of info on
> that.
>
> Civileme
