In defence of the LS120, I have one as a second floppy drive.
For me, its wonderful. It gives me 120 MB of backup storage and I can
access a 1.44 floppy as well - with either Win or Lin.
I love it, but I guess its horses for courses.
!!
John Batistic.
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:29:35 +0000
David Damerell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some time ago, Tom mentioned that anyone with an LS-120 drive should
> sell it and buy a real floppy drive.
>
> Ohhh, boy, was he right. We just took delivery of 20-odd Compaq *spit*
> iPaQ *spit* PCs (same name as the PDA, but different machine) which
> some bright spark put these in, and they're awwwful.
>
> You can boot one off a 1.44 Mb floppy with LILO on that doesn't have
> the root filesystem on a ramdisk (with boot=/dev/fd0 root=/dev/hdc in
> /etc/lilo.conf), but that leaves you with about bugger-all space for
> anything.
>
> I've futzed around with bits of Tom's to produce a disc - nothing like
> Tom's, actually, it's just his bits are small [1] and fit nicely -
> which can do about nothing except mount filesystems on the hard disc
> and do a 'chroot /mnt /bin/bash'; this is useful if you've screwed up
> LILO on the hard disc but the filesystems are OK.
>
> FWIW, one can find this at http://www-co.ch.cam.ac.uk/files/ipaqboot.img
-
> the name is misleading, since it's not ipaq-specific (it does assume
> your LS-120 is /dev/hdc, but you can always (on a real machine not
> crippled by an LS-120) 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; vi /mnt/etc/lilo.conf;
> chroot /mnt lilo; umount /mnt'.) DO NOT RUN /bin/fixme, it may do
> something unpredictable and alarming.
>
> [1] Not like that. I have no information about _those_ bits of Tom.
>
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> David Damerell, Computer Officer, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge
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> These are my opinions, not those of the Department as a whole.
>
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