Pat, John's link is a gold-mine of information. However, there are a few points to ponder as well....
1. STN will boot off of a HD -ONLY- if it is on a partition that is the very first entry in the partition table. In other words, the very first partition created on that hard drive. 2. It needs to be the first -physical- partition. (-DON'T- relocate it away from the beginning of the drive) 3. The entire partition containing STN must reside -below- cylinder 1024. None of this is STN's fault, it is the way the linux loader is written. One thing you can do, if you're brave, and know about boot managers, is to set the STN box to multi-boot. (I do this all the time, put STN within the lowest 8 or so megs, and put something like '98, 'NT, or a full Linux distribution on the rest, for diagnostic purposes.) If you -DO- want to multi-boot your system, you can set up Lilo, Grub, or NT to handle the boot management, or if you're using some other OS, you can go out and get System Commander (a worthy boot manager) However, -ABSOLUTELY- keep at least one, possibly more than one, copy of the STN boot floppy, just in case. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.sharethenet.com/faq.html#hardware-harddrive > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Griffin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:32 PM > To: ShareTheNet > Subject: [STN] Running stn on a HD > > > Hi All, > Try as I might I can't get stn on to a hard drive. Could someone > tell me how to do it please. I copied the contents of my boot floppy to > the > HD but I guess it isn't as simple as that. > > > Regards Pat > ============================================================ > You CAN have Affordable Healthcare with Full Access Medical! > It's only $49 a month a family and there are NO Claim Forms > NO Medical Exams and NO Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions > http://click.topica.com/caaafrebz8Rp2bAfxN6g/FullAccessMedical > ============================================================ > -- > Visit http://www.ShareTheNet.com for info about ShareTheNet > Visit http://www.topica.com/lists/sharethenet for info about this list > To Unsubscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Visit http://www.ShareTheNet.com for info about ShareTheNet Visit http://www.topica.com/lists/sharethenet for info about this list To Unsubscribe send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8Rp2.bAfyIC Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
