On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:05:29PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote > I have a p133 with limited harddrive space. 100~200 meg, I think its > like a 140 actually. Anyways I have an old internal jaz disk, and > I want to install the os on that. The scsi card I have (adaptec 1505) > doesn't have bios so booting off of it is not an option. What I was > hoping to do is boot off of the harddrive and then having that mount the > rest of the system off this jax disk. How would I go about doing this? >
The kernel image has to be accessible at boot time. If you want to use LILO you can, but the boot kernel has to be somewhere on your IDE disk; you could make /dev/hda1 the /boot partition (5Mb should be sufficient), install LILO on either the MBR or the boot record for /dev/hda1 and use /dev/sda for everything else, or you could use loadlin to boot from inside DOS or Windows using a kernel on your hard drive, or you could use a boot floppy. The jaz disk will work, but I wouldn't recommend it; they aren't designed to be continuously mounted, and you may end up wearing the media out - I ran a test system for about 3 weeks (24x7) on a 2Gb Jaz disk, and the Jaz cartridge was not impressed. Live and learn... John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
