Re: Subject: LS-120 install
i'm actually just trying to get good ol' 1.44 floppies
to work with the LS120 drive. (which have been working
great until now that i'm trying to install debian with
floppies).
i almost got it to work by setting root=/dev/hdd but
it then complained that it couldn't mount my root disk
and that it couldn't find init (i think these were for
different things i tried). i later tried to mount the
root disk that i got from the idepci subdirectory of
the frozen 1.44 disks but wouldn't work...
are the root floppy images supposed to be ext2? i
thought they were but the one i have doesn't seem to
be...
thomas
--- ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
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> There's currently no superfloppy support in
> boot-floppies. I'm doing some
> work on it, and I do have a "working" ls120 image
> you can use. There are a
> couple problems with it on my machine at least, and
> you do have to
> manually mount the disk. dbootstrap doesn't know how
> to see it yet.
>
> I'll have it up on
> http://ferret.phonewave.net/boot-floppies/ soon.
>
> I'm hoping I can work it into boot-floppies CVS in
> the next month or two,
> but at least it boots.
>
> Oh yeah, you might be able to make it work by
> zcatting the image to a zip
> disk's partition 4 in a pinch, but I haven't and
> won't try it.
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> > >I was trying to install debian (frozen) on my
> laptop
> > >the other day but got stuckon the following. i
> have a
> > >LS-120 drive (for "superdisks" which is backwards
> > >compatible with 1.44MB disks) which i was using
> to
> > >boot the install disk. the
> > >images i used were the ones from the idepci
> > >subdirectory.
> > >
> > >the system started booting, the image on the
> floppy
> > >started booting as well
> > >until it gave the following message:
> > >
> > > Insert the root floppy disk to be loaded
> into
> > >RAM disk and press Enter.
> > >
> > >(or something like that)
> > >
> > >i tried pressing enter with the disk i had used
> to
> > >boot from since i believe
> > >that's all i needed (i was gonna do an harddrive
> > >install with base2_2.tgz on
> > >another linux partition). i even tried the driver
> > disk
> > >just in case...
> > >nothing seemed to do it...
> >
> > Actually you need two floppy disk images (at
> least)
> > the boot disk, and the root disk. The boot disk
> has
> > the kernel, the root disk has the rest of the
> system
> > (includes the installer).
> >
> > However (someone correct me if I'm wrong) the
> disks
> > were written to run on a real floppy NOT off an
> > ide-floppy (which the ls120 is) and would probably
> die
> > at the point that you tried to insert the the root
> > disk and hit return, it would never find the root
> disk
> > since it was looking at /dev/fd0, not /dev/hdxx
> where
> > the ls120 is! I have never managed to install of
> an
> > ls120 so I still have a floppy in my
> > computers.....along with an ls120.
> >
> > I bet zip drives have the same problem. OTOH
> booting
> > off a cd rom drive DOES work....
> > am i doing something wrong with the disks i'm
> using or
> > is it a problem with the LS-120 support?
> >
> > thanks for any help,
> >
> > thomas
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