On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Klaus Drechsler wrote:
> > Try making a small partition for windoze (200-300M) than a Linux
> >native partition (about 100M) which will be the /boot or /. Than you are
> >free to partition your hard drive any way you want it.
> wow that is going to be a problem. I already installed so many software on,
> that it would be a hard work to do it all again ...
Well... sorry. I assumed you just did that partitioning so there
was no problem with this.
> but I have another idea. it is possible to boot linux from dos via
> "loadlin". I tried it and it worked so far, but I have still some problems.
Of course. That is one of the main purposes/advantages of
loadlin over Lilo. Because it doesn't involve BIOS and it's boot problem.
> the distribution I use is based on kernel 2.0.29. so there is no FAT32
> suppurt (I tried to mount my first windows partition with "mount -t vfat
> /dev/hda1 /win", but it then says "bad fs ...").
There is a patch somewhere for older kernels. But the best idea
seems to be just to get a newer kernel.
> what I need is a little tool for linux to access /dev/hda1. because if I
> can access this drive I can copy the new kernel-2.2.2 (I downloaded it with
> windows) from that partition to my linux partition.
Yup. It's pretty easy to do, but it will take some time. I mean
you have to put the source on floppies. And it will take about 10 pieces.
You will have to use arj or pkzip to make an archive with multiple
volumes. Don't use winzip! winzip has a very idiot way of making
multiple volumes. And besides, it's volumes aren't readable by unzip from
*nix. pkzip follows the zip standard. Eventually it will make a dos
archive (names in 8.3 format), but this isn't a real problem because you
transport only one file. Same thing with arj - on every distribution CD
there is an unarj utility I guess. Here you can use any archiver that has
a version for dos and one for Linux and which can make multiple volumes.
Now the rest of the idea. You should use msdos formated floppies
so they could be seen from dos/win. Than you'll make the volumes with the
archiver of your choice. The next step would be to boot Linux. Than you
will do something like:
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt_point
I assume you have msdos fs format compiled and that /dev/fd0 is
your floppy drive. mnt_point is a directory of your choice where you'll
mount the floppy. You will copy the file from the /mnt_point to another
location, ex: /tmp. Than you'll give:
# umount /mnt_point
Here you'll change the floppy in the drive (the order of the
floppies isn't relevant) and remount the disk. And again those steps till
you have all volumes stored on your Linux partition. You'll extract the
kernel source tree as tar.gz, remove the volumes and from this point
you'll have to follow the instructions from Kernel-HOWTO in order to have
the new kernel.
Warning: Are you sure you want a 2.2.x kernel. I mean I have
RH4.2 with the 2.0.30 kernel (which is newer than yours by the way) and
besides bash, I have to upgrade every important pack on my system in order
to work with a 2.2.x kernel. Did you read the requirements for it? Maybe
you should donload the 2.0.36 kernel.
> > Any kernel, older than 2.0.33 will see fat32 as long as you have
> >vfat support compiled.
> you mean "newer", aren�t you ? :-)
Oops! Yup. That was what I meant.
Raider
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