Re: Ruffian Boot Disks
>>>>> "David" == David Monro <davidm@fuzzbox.ml.org> writes:
David> Umm. I don't think I actually have any at the moment; I tend to hack boot disks
David> together when I need them. You should however be able to to the following, even
David> if you only have a windows box handy:
David> 1) Find 3 floppies.
David> 2) Make the first one a FAT filesystem and put the ldmilo-ruffian-981020 and
David> milo-ruffian-981020 files on it (from gatekeeper), renamed to ldmilo.exe and
David> milo respectively.
Aaaah.
David> 3) Take the debian boot image for another alpha variant (I think I used avanti,
David> but it shouldn't matter), and remove the 'linux' from it. Replace it with a
David> kernel from a red hat install disk.
Yep.
David> 4) Put the root filesystem on the last floppy.
done that.
David> Boot the milo from the first one. If you have more than 224M of memory, do 'set
David> MEMORY_SIZE 224' (this problems should go away in the future). Then switch
David> floppies and boot fd0:linux root=/dev/fd0 rw ramdisk_size=5120, and then insert
David> the third one when it is ready for the ramdisk.
David> It should be possible to use only two floppies by replacing the milo on an
David> appropriate debian install floppy with the 981020 ones as well (I think), but I
David> can't vouch for this since I haven't done it.
Works. Thanks :) I've managed to put all on two floppies (ie resc and
boot). However, I had to erase all files from the rh milo boot disc and copy
the debian resc disc files over, then replacing linux with
http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/redhat/redhat-5.2/alpha/kernels/ruffian.gz
adding the ruffian miload.exe and milo from gatekeeper. Done!
*phew*
Cheers. Anybody needs images of the ruffian-resc1440 disc?
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Nicolai P Guba
BT Labs GNU
nicolai.guba@BT.com nicolai@GNU.org
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