On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:15:08AM +1000, Bill uttered:
> I got it to run perfectly on the second attempt, booting from my SCSI CDRW,
> after realising that the hardware detection was hanging whilst checking my
> SCSI Orb drive
> (had to insert a disk - not the first time with this problem with Orb).
>
Second attempt? What went wrong the first time? Ahhh, it hung. Forget I asked. :-)
Are Orb drives always that finicky about stuff like that? My trusty Zip drive (which
refuses to eject disks, so i have rip them out) gets probed with no disk and happily
returns its hardware type.
> Only problem is inability to update or install programs.
>
What's the problem? You don't know how, or what?
> I'd like to "ghost" the CD to an Orb drive, with a second partition to
> allow for installatio of other programs, downlads etc.
>
The simplest way i can think of is this:
Figure out which device your CD-ROM is, if it's SCSI it will probably be /dev/scd0.
Next, figure out which device your Orb drive is, it's probably /dev/sd[a..g].
Put a disk in the Orb, and run the following:
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/dev/sd[what you found the Orb was]
That command just does a data dump directly from the CD to the Orb, nice and simple
(if you understand Unix devices of course. :-)
> Thanks
> Bill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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