Re: LS-120 grub boot with 1.44MB but not 120MB floppy: "Geom Error"

2001-09-21 Thread Mike McGuire
Yo. I've got one of these fun little things too. One of these days I'll get grub up and running, maybe, but at present I'm sticking with lilo. I've got a LS-120 boot disk to run lilo, but it needed some extra parameter. I had to add the following to lilo.conf: disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x

Re: LS-120 "Super Rescue" floppy

1999-07-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 03:06:41PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: > I'm trying to make a "super rescue" floppy on an LS-120 floppy. Good idea! Norton Utilities for Windows does this with a Zip drive. > If I leave the first line in /etc/lilo.conf > > /dev/hdd1 Definately not what you want. In my exper

Re: LS-120 vs floppy

1999-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My system has an LS-120 instead of a floppy. How can I install LILO on the > LS-120, /dev/hdc. Also the resuce disk I have, which is how I currently boot > into linux vs NT was made on another box with a floppy, I have not been > able to make a boot

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-14 Thread Kenneth Scharf
It IS possible to format a 1.44m floppy in an LS120. The compaq machine I have at work does this all the time under windows NT. What is needed is a program to do this under linux! ---"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > >

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-14 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > But dos and windows can low > level format 1.44m floppies IN AN LS120. If I could get linux to do > that I could 86 my floppy drive an use it's interrupt for something > else. Kennet

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies > on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /d

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-12 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies > on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /dev

Re: LS-120

1998-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on > /dev/hdd)? Dunno. Ironically, Windows NT SP3 can't format floppies in the LS-120 unless you downgrade ATAPI.SYS back to the SP2 version. > Also I have a custom kernel, how can I c

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-11 Thread Lorenzo Pulici
On sab, 10 ott 1998, Vernon Marshall wrote: >Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system? Recompile the kernel with section (on make menuconfig) FLOPPY, IDE AND OTHER BLOCK DEVICES [*] Include IDE/ATAPY FLOPPY support (NEW) enabled. I have a LS 120 drive as /dev/hdb

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-10 Thread Curt Daugaard
Yes. The 2.0.30 kernel includes support for the drive. Look for it in the config documentation when you compile. Works great here. HTH. Curt Daugaard On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 08:34:33AM -0700, Vernon Marshall wrote: > Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system? >

RE: LS-120

1998-06-07 Thread Paul Rightley
The hamm installation disks work perfectly with an LS-120. I wrote a message to debian-user a while ago regarding the installation - check the archives if you are interested - or email me (assuming I can remember). A coworker of mine is using this machine currently and has experineced no significa