Unfortunately, we don't have a FlashPoint adapter to test this
boot disk with.
If you have a FlashPoint adapter and are willing to test it for us
(and preferably to test one more disk later; the current disk has
compiled-in support for the FlashPoint but we'll eventually want to
distribute modular support as we prefer to do for all SCSI adapters)
you can simply download it, gunzip it, dd it to a floppy, and boot
it. Watch the boot messages for notice of detecting the FlashPoint
adapter. If you don't wish to install, that's all we need to know;
just let us know if it was detected.
If you have access to a Red Hat Linux 4.0 CDROM or have good internet
access and want to try an install via ftp, you should be able to.
Assuming the disk works, after doing the install (and setting up LILO,
etc), boot *from the floppy* with "linux root=/dev/sd??" where "sd??"
is the root partition on the hard drive. Then mount the floppy and
copy the vmlinuz off it into your /boot directory and re-run lilo. At
that point, you should have a working Linux system -- we hope. (The
driver *is* in beta-testing, after all, and in its first public
release.)
The image can be retreived from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/johnsonm/bootFlashPoint.img.gz
Thanks very much to Leonard Zubkoff and BusLogic for making this
possible!
michaelkjohnson
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