As far as Mac and PC flavors, I believe it's possible to reformat a Mac
Zip to a PC Zip, and vice versa - They come preformatted for much the
same reason floppies do - for our convenience.
Mike
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip
> drive
I seem to remember that you can rebuild a kernal, and rename it. Then
you can set lilo to boot off that, and if it screws up, you can reset
lilo to boot off your stable kernal. That way you can cut your teeth on
the latest kernal technology. Anyone have any more details on that?
Mike
Alexander G
Your problem must be perplexing. I just installed a machine last night
with floppies with nary a problem. There may be something in the way
your box is reading the floppy drive during boot. I used rawrite to
create the rescue disk, driver disk, and the five bin disks, then stuck
the rescue in the b
Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the
five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for
scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be
for insmod? Trust that I'm familiar with Linux, but still very new.
(This is my first
I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system
from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive
on the parallel port so I can start installing packages (can't handle a
stack of hundreds of floppies).
Thanks,
Mike
If you are transfering those to disk from dos/windows, you need to use
the rawrite utility (rawrite writes information to a disk without regard
to the format - hence overwriting the file system info that reduces a
14.4 to a 13.8) Rawrite is available from the same dir that you
downloaded your bins
I think my ppp crapped out on me while I was sending my last email. Here
it is again:--- Begin Message ---
Viola! Success. That was rather strange. After booting with the floppy,
I went and executed lilo like you said (actually I went to bin rather
than sbin, but it worked anyway), rebooted sans fl
Viola! Success. That was rather strange. After booting with the floppy,
I went and executed lilo like you said (actually I went to bin rather
than sbin, but it worked anyway), rebooted sans floppy, and it booted
without hesitation. What did I miss? At the end of the install, where
you were given a
Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot
floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load
anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed).
Also, do I have to load the drivers for the serial ports, or is that
automatically
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