on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:51:56AM +0000, Harry Palmer (harrypalmer@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote:
> On 04 Nov 2001 13:26:56 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >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?
> >You could try using an LS-120 disk and a 2.88 mb image. Thereby
> >elimnating the need for a root floppy....
> 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.
Can you boot the system from the LS-120 using DOS? If so, there are DOS
tools which can create disk images and such for you. There are also
free DOSes out there, freeDOS and DRDOS come to mind.
DOS tools for Debian install:
ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/tools/
Peace.
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