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
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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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