I've heard a number of beefs about STN working with a hard drive.
1. It -DOES- work. (I'm using it via Charter Pipline off a H.D. right
this instant.)
2. It -IS- fussy. You gotta play its game, its way, or no dice.
Here's the scoop:
1. You gotta have a working STN floppy system running. If your floppy
is hozed, you're reading the wrong message.
2. You'd better not want to be doing anything else with the disk, at
least at first. (you're going to have to nuke it)
3. The Linux Loader that STN uses, absolutely INSISTS on being:
(a) In the FIRST physical partition on the HD. (below cyl 1024)
(b) The reference to this partition MUST BE the FIRST ENTRY IN THE
PARTITION TABLE. If it is not the first entry (hda) you're hozed.
(c) On an IDE drive, on the primary channel. SCSI does NOT work.
4. Given that, the instructions work, and it loads.
I created the smallest partition it would let me create (8 meg out of
4.52 gig.) It is working like a champ.
I do not know that this is true - but I suspect very highly - that
having done this I could now load Linux (say the latest RH dist.) on the
rest of the drive, and let lilo default boot to STN and choice boot to
the full-up linux. You could probably also load something like System
Commander & run Windoze too. However, I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS LAST YET -
so it might not be exactly true. If someone does try it, let us know.
Jim
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