Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive.
After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot
I get 'Loading...................' and then the machine reboots...
Thanks for the suggestions,
Paul
On 10-Mar-98 shaul@rakefet.debian.org wrote:
> It seems that I did not understand what is the problem.
> I thought you can't *start* the installation process because the machine has
> no "normal" floppy drive. Reading your reply made me thought that the problem
> is that the installation process does not run becuase the default kernel
> could
> not get loaded. Where this problem is due to the special floppy drive.
> Well, if I got it correctly this time then a possible solution might be to
> get
> the installation process to start using a custom kernel. Where the custom
> kernel will not look for the fd, because it was compiled without any fd
> support.
> In any case, I am thinking of ways to make /dev/hdb the root partition.
>
>> Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this...
>>
>> The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian
>> on is the fact that it does not have a "normal" floppy
>> drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the
>> root partition, but I will try it one of these days.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> >> > I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine.
>> >> > However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity
>> >> > floppy) and no "normal" floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin
>> >> > (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2
>> >> > will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem
>> >> > is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD,
>> >> > the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install
>> >> > Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation.
>> >> >
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