In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maria Ri ghtley writes: > > >Hello all -- > >I have recently been trying to make a bootable Debian installation on a >Jaz drive. I did this by using 'cp -a' to transfer files from my scsi >hard drive to the Jaz drive. I then changed the Jaz drive version of >/etc/fstab so that it would mount /dev/sdb1 (the jaz drive) as / and >commented out the mount lines for the normal scsi hard drive / and >/home partitions. I made a boot floppy for this configuration (copied >vmlinuz to a temporary location, used rdev to set the root device as >/dev/sdb1 on the temporary copy, then used dd to transfer that copy to >a floppy). [snip a ton]
If you get this working, it would be great if someone (potentially you? :) could write a procedure to do this and possibly add a script to do most of the work. That would IMO be a very valuable addition to the Debian distribution. Nils. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
