<chuckle>...
Now *THERE's* ingenuity! Sounds like "the old days" of hobbyists and the
quick thinking on your feet we had to do then.
*GOOD IDEA*, Craig... A little deviousness never hurt ANYONE...
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Subject: Re: [ShareTheNet] Problems installing STN on a hard disk
partition
Bob
Just a thought, but you could do as I have done and mount the floppy drive
*inside* the case, especially if you have a rear drive bay under the PS.
This prevents anyone from grabbing the diskette without disasmbling the
whole machine first.
Craig
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 14:46:22 Bob Selby wrote:
>OK I followed the procedure in the FAQ to the letter and LINUX boots OK, to
a point...
>
>Just after the message "VFS: mounted root (minux file system)"
>I get the error "end_request: I/O ERROR, dev 02:00, sector 0"
>then "No configuration files (----) found!"
>then it halts.
>
>There is nothing wrong with the hard disk (no bad sectors) and STN runs on
this machine (from
>floppy) on a regular basis without problem.
>
>There are two other partitions on the disk (both inactive at this time).
>
>Interestingly, if I put the floppy into the drive while it is booting from
the hard disk but before
>it reaches the above point - it works OK !!! but reads files from the
diskette rather than the
>HD.
>
>Could it be that the load system is looking for files specificaly on A: ???
and if so how can I get
>around it ??
>
>Any advice very welcome.
>
>PS Before anyone asks - Yes ! I do need to boot from HD - for security
reasons. The STN machine
>is "exposed" and even a floppy lock is considered risky. Removing the
diskette after boot is not
>an option either as I often need to tweak the configuration remotely on the
fly and reboot.
>
>Rgds,
>Bob
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