I solved this problem by booting of CD. All you need is an old
atapi-cdrom and a MS-DOS boot-disk, which loads the driver. If you have
a distribution which has an loadlin environment on the cd ( debian and
SuSE are the two I found working yet ) you can go to the install
directory and boot it.
On
Quoting Bradley Pursley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Actually, it wasn't so much that my system was too
small that was causing the problem, but just that it
can't boot Linux from the floppy drive. I could have
theoretically gotten it to work on the drive I had,
but my wife was getting tired of
Actually, I tried that and it worked just fine.
My problem was why it couldn't/wouldn't boot from a
floppy.
If you've got a DOS partition, why not boot from it
using
loadlin. All that goes on the DOS partition is a
copy of
the kernel, one 32KB file and you may want a .bat
file to
save
Well, I'm pulling out of the mailing list, but I
wanted to leave you all with the results of what I
discovered after playing around with my settings on my
computer and such.
I found that no-way-no-how will Linux boot from
the floppy drive on my PS/1 Consultant (486 based)
computer, but it
Actually, it wasn't so much that my system was too
small that was causing the problem, but just that it
can't boot Linux from the floppy drive. I could have
theoretically gotten it to work on the drive I had,
but my wife was getting tired of my playing with the
Win95 settings on the DOS
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