Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Feb 1997 19:00:44 -0500 (EST) | From | Illuminati Primus <> | Subject | Re: Floppy problem. |
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That was me writing about how Linux couldn't access my PS/1's disk drive.. Eventually, I gave up and tried another method. What I did is I copied color.gz to lodlin16's directory, compiled a kernel w/ initrd support on another machine, downloaded the kernel, and then booted with lodlin. I was able to the install from the CDROM and eventually get linux working on my PS/1.. My life on the slowest computer in existance suddenly became slightly more tolerable :) (And I've never had to use the disk drive in linux again).
-vermont@gate.net
PS I wonder if anyone knows why Linux wasnt able to communicate with my PS/1's disk drive correctly? If theres some way to kludge it to work (or maybe even fix it correctly?)? Anyhow, now my 386 is doing a much better job holding down some papers across the room. Maybe I'll give it to my sisters >:).
On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Chris Evans wrote:
> > Hi, > > As a favour for a friend I am installing Linux on her ancient 386SX... > just to run console based things like (primarily) telnet. However, said > machine is a PS/1. > > Problem 1) (SOLVED) -- stupid IBM bios doesn't report proper disk > geometry. lilo parameters fix this. > > Problem 2) The moment it comes to load in the compressed image on the > floppy, I get "I/O error on dev 02:00 sector 0" (or something similar). > A search showed up a similar post by someone else a while back but it was > not answered satisfactorily... > > So, is there any way to get a floppy drive working under Linux on a PS/1 > computer? Perhaps some floppy=really_quite_crap parameter I can give lilo? > > Cheers, > Chris. >
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