On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Mart Kempen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a working floppy image by now :) > > But the computer where I want to run Dachstein on has a broken floppy > controller, and can't fix this.
I find this hard to believe. A FDC is not more expensive than a NIC, and you need two of those. > But I still have a 1 gb HD laying around with W95 installed on it. > > I assume that ny router can also be run from a HD. > > How do I get my floppy on the HD. > > How to format it, under Linux or under W95. How to copy the files on it. So many options, each with assumptions... I think the new floppy drive will be much easier on your brain. IF the HD was native to that box, and included two network cards, OR you have a CD drive and the W95 cd and can configure the NICs to play nice, OR you have a bootable CD drive and a bootable Linux cd, THEN you MIGHT be able to install LOADLIN and transfer the diskette files over the network onto the HD and configure LOADLIN to start from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The Linux cd approach would require more than minimal Linux knowledge. I think having Win95 know about and be happy with the two NICs may not be needed, but having to remove one of them from your machine every time you try to bypass LOADLIN may be a hassle. I think your HD would need to be formatted with FAT16 (almost certainly the case... you would need W95OSR2 otherwise, and for that size HD it would make little sense to use FAT32). You don't say if the box uses ISA or PCI NICs. Each has quirks... the former usually need configuration programs that are usually available on the net, the latter sometimes need you to go into the BIOS and tweak settings or have the NICs placed in specific slots. You may need to replace the "linux" file from your floppy with a version that supports IDE... if so, you will need to replace the modules in your modules.lrp file also. (SYSLINUX.DPY, LDLINUX.SYS and SYSLINUX.CFG are not needed if you use LOADLIN, but it won't hurt if you forget to remove them.) See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME.html and http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net/dox/loadlin_howto.txt. http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/cstein/Documentation/LRPHardDiskHOWTO.txt has a lot of useful information, but it assumes you have a working FDC, so I don't think you can use syslinux. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Please keep in mind that my Linux knowledge is absolutely minimal LRP is a good tool for correcting that... it is a small system, so it has relatively few configuration points, yet you can still use Windows to get it up and going. However, getting things onto hard disks is easiest with a floppy drive. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
