Re: IBM PS/1 Consultant problem
Actually, it wasn't so much that my system was too
small that was causing the problem, but just that it
can't boot Linux from the floppy drive. I could have
theoretically gotten it to work on the drive I had,
but my wife was getting tired of my playing with the
Win95 settings on the DOS partition. <grin>
--- Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
> I've run Debian 2.1 (slink) on a box with a 40M HD
> (no X), and currently
> have a 270M HD (X and KDE). Feel free to ask me if
> you want some tips
> on running a small system.
> --
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Bradley Pursley wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm pulling out of the mailing list, but
> I
> > wanted to leave you all with the results of what I
> > discovered after playing around with my settings
> on my
> > computer and such.
> >
> > I found that no-way-no-how will Linux boot
> from
> > the floppy drive on my PS/1 Consultant (486 based)
> > computer, but it will boot and install from the
> Hard
> > Drive just fine and dandy. I had to do an install
> > from a DOS partition in order to install it on my
> > system and then discovered that the packages I
> need to
> > get it running on my system exceeded the amount of
> > space on my Hard Drive that I was willing to use.
> So,
> > I removed it and this is why I am pulling out for
> now.
> >
> >
> > There are no BIOS settings that can be changed
> to
> > eliminate this problem on this computer and I have
> no
> > idea why it won't boot from only the floppy drive.
> >
> > I would like to thank you all for what little
> > input and help was given to me on this problem and
> > hope to try this again sometime in the near
> future.
> >
> > -Bradley
> >
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> later,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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