Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive.
After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot
I get 'Loading...' and then the machine reboots...
I do not understand why it happen.
Perhaps it will not happen if you will use loadlin
Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive.
After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot
I get 'Loading...' and then the machine reboots...
Thanks for the suggestions,
Paul
On 10-Mar-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems that I did
Sorry not beeing able to help you directly, but:
I installed Linux on a Computer with no floppy, only a LS-120 drive
without any problems. I put a custom kernel with atapi-floppy support
on the boot disk, put this in the LS-120 drive from where it booted
correctly and showed me the install menu
It seems that I did not understand what is the problem.
I thought you can't *start* the installation process because the machine has
no normal floppy drive. Reading your reply made me thought that the problem
is that the installation process does not run becuase the default kernel could
not get
Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this...
The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian
on is the fact that it does not have a normal floppy
drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the
root partition, but I will try it one of these days.
Paul
On 01-Mar-98
Thank you for the suggestion. I got it to install without the
use of loadlin. I made a rescue disk on a normal 1.44 floppy
and then put a debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current tree on a
LS-120 and put resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin and base2_0.tgz in
the current directory. Before installing the
Hi,
This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help.
It was Paul Rightley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) question (if I remeber correctly). I
was only trying to help.
It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of
the possibility of putting a minimal
Neither my coworker nor I have been able to find the time to try
to attack the new problem - and I really don't know where to begin
at the moment.
We got a system installed using the LS120 drive and the hamm
installation disks (and I am will write
up a little HOWTO to describe it - since it was
I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine.
However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity
floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin
(from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2
will not work (apparently) with these disk drives.
Hi,
This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help.
It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of
the possibility of putting a minimal installation (90Mb) on a 120Mb disk
drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second
Hi,
This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help.
It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of
the possibility of putting a minimal installation (90Mb) on a 120Mb disk
drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second
Hi Paul
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Paul Rightley wrote:
I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine.
However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity
floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin
(from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2
I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine.
However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity
floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin
(from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2
will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The
I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine.
However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity
floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin
(from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2
will not work (apparently) with these
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