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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > later, > > Bruce > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
