Re: jaz disk

[John Pearson <john@huiac.apana.org.au>]

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:05:29PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote
> I have a p133 with limited harddrive space.  100~200 meg, I think its
> like a 140 actually.  Anyways I have an old internal jaz disk, and
> I want to install the os on that.  The scsi card I have (adaptec 1505)
> doesn't have bios so booting off of it is not an option.  What I was
> hoping to do is boot off of the harddrive and then having that mount the
> rest of the system off this jax disk.  How would I go about doing this?
> 

The kernel image has to be accessible at boot time.  If you want to use LILO
you can, but the boot kernel has to be somewhere on your IDE disk; you could
make /dev/hda1 the /boot partition (5Mb should be sufficient), install LILO
on either the MBR or the boot record for /dev/hda1 and use /dev/sda for
everything else, or you could use loadlin to boot from inside DOS or Windows
using a kernel on your hard drive, or you could use a boot floppy.

The jaz disk will work, but I wouldn't recommend it; they aren't designed to
be continuously mounted, and you may end up wearing the media out - I ran a
test system for about 3 weeks (24x7) on a 2Gb Jaz disk, and the Jaz
cartridge was not impressed.  Live and learn...


John P.
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