Greetings: Delay taking time out to visit the hospital taking me away
from this more interesting stuff. <grin> Comments below at request:
Hal
On 06-10, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> Hi, Steven
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Chuck Gelm wrote:
> > >
> > > I've created slackware-8.1-iso & slackware-9.0-iso CDROMs.
> > > I have exhausted attempts to use them as install media
> > > while booting from a single floppy.
> <snip>
> > Now you are getting close to a solution. You take the kernel
> > from the CDrom (bzImage) and the image of the installation
> > filesystem (initrd.img) and boot them (from DOS) using loadlin.exe:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > loadlin d:\kernels\scsi.s\bzImage initrd=d:\isolinux\initrd.img
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Provided that your boot floppy's o/s can recognize the CDROM drive.
> ;-)
>
> Thanks, Steven, this should work for me.
>
> Hal: Does your reluctant system, if booted from a DOS diskette,
> have its SCSI CDROM drive recognized?
>
> Regards, Chuck
First off, to make matters worse, I note that my distribution
disk does NOT have the /rootdisks directory so that's _one_ reason
I've been in the dark so much.. The other, seemingly, big problem is
that the "reluctant" system has an IDE HD but both CD's are SCSI,
driven by a BusLogic controller.. There is, also, a SCSI scanner, but
I've disconnected it during this mess, and a ZIP250..
Re above; booting from a DRDos702 floppy the BIOS sees the
BusLogic controller OK but doesn't, automatically, assign a drive
letter to either CD.. The IDE HD on this machine does NOT have a Dos
partition, only 3 Linux native and 1 swap, so I'm shot down with
Stevens' instructions as the two images wont fit on a floppy.. Maybe
I'm missing something here - my mind has turned to Jello. :^)... I
have the Dos drivers for Atapi drives and the required mscdex, or
equivalent, but that's no use with a SCSI drive.. I've got to
research this somemore..
Trying to boot from the SlackCD with the disk in either of
the SCSI drives and the BIOS set to Boot: SCSI, A, C, it doesn't see
either and goes right into the normal LILO boot of /hda3.. I'm
guessing that the autoboot routine on the CD only works when you set
the BIOS to: CDROM,,,, and the drive is ATAPI-IDE.. So, bottom line,
is that the CD distribution I have installs OK on a pure ATAPI-IDE
machine - which I have already done on another machine.
Richard has installed using the boot/root combination from
Slack8.0, but I can't seem to get it working so far.. He's, kindly,
trying to solve that problem..
It's rather obvious, that the ./makedisk <filename>
<kernel.img> routine in the distribution doesn't work, even tho I've
tried formatting a floppy to 1720K and 1680K, which the routine is
supposed to do automatically.. Searching google/linux; "makedisk
slackware 8.1" brought several horror stories.. ./makedisk creates a
file in /tmp/xxxx.img - but what to do with that?? Load it with
loadlin? I still have so much to learn..
To me the most unfortunate thing about this is: How can I,
with a straight face, recommend the neighbours switch to Linux??
Sorry this is so long..
Hal
>
> > I've just executed that line (on a nearby system) and it is now
> > running the installation routine. Note: you may need to change
> > the d: to a different letter (depending on what letter was assigned
> > by DOS to your CDrom).
> >
> > > Is there a way to copy the CDROM's root filesystem to /dev/hdb1
> > > and alter the default 'scsi.s' bootdisk so that it loads the root
> > > image from /dev/hdb1? rdev?
> >
> > Yes, but it should not be necessary. Just try loadlin.exe
> > (get it from the loadlin zip file in the /kernels directory
> > of the CDrom).
>
> The installation runs much faster from hard drive. ;-)
>
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
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