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[RULE] Need help installing Laptop -- floppy & CD-Rom mutually exclusive
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[RULE] Need help installing Laptop -- floppy & CD-Rom mutually exclusive |
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Thu, 20 May 2004 12:15:06 -0600 |
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
HELP!
I'm installing RULE using slinky v0.3.96 and FC2. Here's my problem... which I
mentioned before... The laptop has a floppy drive and a cd-rom... but they use
the same drive bay and they are *NOT* hot-swappable. Beforehand, OpenBSD was
installed on the computer... but I wanted to see where I could get by using
RULE out-of-the-box.
Now I'm stuck: in a catch-22. In order to install the OS to the hard drive, I
need to be able to access the CD-ROM. In order to access the CD-ROM, I need
the CD-ROM present at boot-time... but if the CD-ROM is in the bay... I can't
boot to the floppy!
After failing to install RULE, and with a freshly repartitioned hard drive, I
tried to use "Smart Boot" as you recommended. It appeared to install OK, and
the computer booted to the program. However, when I selected to boot from the
CD-ROM (with the slinky-*.iso CD-R), it said something like "Error OxAA".
Wouldn't boot.
I tried partitioning my drive for: hda1 (2MB), hda2 (2MB), hda3 (>400MB), hda4
(about 33MB). I tried to find a way to copy the floppy images to hda1 and
hda2... but I can't find a way to do it without having an OS installed. Also,
the kernel loaded by RULE only seems to recognize ext* file systems. I tried
to put disk1 on a FAT floppy and do:
gunzip /mnt/floppy/disk1i~1.gz | dd of=/dev/hda1 bs=1440k
But that didn't work. Complained about going beyond the file system... and I
think it referred to the /mnt/floppy because it was a FAT file system.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Gabriel
Quoting James Miller <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 address@hidden wrote:
>
> > I had problems with CD boot and overcame them using a boot manager that
> > allows you to boot CD's, it's called 'XOSL' and can be found at
> > http://xosl.sourceforge.net/
> > it contains, as a subset, the boot manager 'Smart Boot Manager' , which
> > allows it to boot CD's, the dowside however, if memory serves me correctly
>
> Smart Boot Manager has its own homepage as well at
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
>
> James
>
>
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