Re: Unresolvable installation problem?

[Harry Palmer <harrypalmer@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Thanks Adam,

I can see how that would be ideal, but with the laptop housing the
only (stupid!) LS120 drive, I can't see a way of getting the image
onto a disk.

Harry


On 04 Nov 2001 13:26:56 -0500, you wrote:

>You could try using an LS-120 disk and a 2.88 mb image. Thereby
>elimnating the need for a root floppy....
>
>
>Adam Jacob Muller
>
>On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 12:53, Harry Palmer wrote:
>> I have a (decent, 400MHz PII) laptop with no CDROM and an LS120 IDE
>> floppy drive instead of a standard floppy (which boot disks pick up as
>> hdd).
>> 
>> Is that me stuffed as far as getting potato up and running? I tried a
>> few things with the idepci boot set, but there doesn't seem to be a
>> way of getting beyond the first boot floppy and getting the root
>> filesystem loaded. Has anybody been here before?
>> 
>> H.
>> 
>> 
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