Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:22:08 -0500 | From | omnilord@aztechne ... | Subject | PS/1 Floppy Problems |
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Hello Linux Gurus out there... hopefully you can help me with a problem I am having...
After installing Linux a few times on other computers, I finally decided that it was time to install it on my home computer, a PS/1 2123 386SX 20 MegaHertz, since i had just bought a 1.2 gig HD (and amazingly i can access it with EZ Drive! w00h00)... So I popped in the CD, created some boot & root disks like usual, and after a few tries I got the asbpcd boot disk to detect my hardware correctly (it had a problem identifying my primary HD, a 127 meg maxtor, and my CDRom, a Panasonic external)... But now that all seems to work fine...
Except for one thing... When it comes time to load my ramdisk, no matter what disk i use, I ALWAYS get this message.. (very close to this): "IO Error, Device 0200, Sector 0"... I have tried this at least 20 times, with different disks, and even tried gunzipping color.gz before rawriting it to disk (same error)... In DOS when i create the disks, I first format them, then scan them with Norton Disk Doctor, and it reports absolutely no errors... This is very strange, and if anyone knows any settings I should play with to get the disk drive to work, I would appreciatte it very much... (its a 1.44, only floppy drive in my system)
The only problem i have ever had in dos with my disk drive is when occasionally I eject a disk and swap it with another, i can do a directory and it will list the previous disk's contents... I think this is a problem with smartdrv tho, and not the hardware of my disk drive... (i think)...
There is one other solution, and maybe someone out there knows how I could do this... : Is there ANY way to mount a root file system from something other than the disk drive (CD maybe?), without access to the linux system? (I only have access to a few boot disks and loadlin (which is pretty nice))... I have read that new versions of redhat can do a floppy-less installation... is this true? and if so, how does it work? (i have only an old version of redhat, and vers 2.96 of slackware)
Thanks everyone for your help & time, I apreciatte it...
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