Re: Subject: LS-120 install

2000-05-13 Thread ferret
It's a lot more tricky. Basically with a compliant x86 system the BIOS calls that access the FDC/FDD are translated into ATAPI calls so REAL-MODE accesses work. This allows bootloaders such as syslinux to transparantly boot floppy disks in one of these drives. I don't know how this happens in deta

Re: Subject: LS-120 install

2000-05-04 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 4 May 2000, Thomas Crulli wrote: > 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). Won't work. The kernel ramdisk-fro

Re: Subject: LS-120 install

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Crulli
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 c

Re: Subject: LS-120 install

2000-05-04 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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 kn

Re: Subject: LS-120 install

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Crulli
is this just an issue of having an option in the install script that specifies what device to use for the floppies or are there more tricky issues? thomas --- Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I was trying to install debian (frozen) on my > laptop > >the other day but got stuck

Subject: LS-120 install

2000-05-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>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.

LS-120 install

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Crulli
hi, 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.