The method described here uses a DOS/Windows formatted hard drive to build a Linux
system in a ramdisk, just like the floppy does. If you want a Linux ext2fs formatted
system to do it, this won't help you.
I played with this and got it working. The key was the syslinux.com, the last thing
the STN-gui does when making the floppy. Also, I needed a DOS 6.22 (probably older,
too) bootable floppy, not a Win95 bootable floppy.
First, on a blank formatted floppy, copy over all the files from your working floppy
to the (DOS or Win95 formatted) hard drive's root direcotry.
Then copy syslinux.com from your windows STN program directory to the same had drive.
Boot from a floppy, then run "syslinux.com C:".
But with a Win95 formatted floppy, this failed--something about Windows locking the
hard drive? Don't recall exactly.
I booted with an old DOS 6.22 floppy, then ran syslinux.com and it worked fine.
In case you don't have an old 6.22 bootable floppy laying around, there may be a
workaround with a Win95 formatted system floppy. The error said to look at the "lock"
command (I think? See what it says when you try if you have no DOS 6- bootable floppy
available).
pjb
At 03:27 PM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a spare 500 MB hard drive that I would like to use to run
>ShareTheNet. I would like to do this to improve boot time. How
>would I go about doing this? I tried it once before, and it still asked
>for the disk.
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