Re: > 1 meg bzImage

Kent Overstreet (kent@kent.net)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:43:59 -0800 (AKDT)

> One thing that's a little annoying tho is that these drives don't fit on
> a floppy interface - ie: a faked one (eg: like ST-506 vs IDE) - I suppose
> doing an IDE like CHS mapping on a floppy wouldn't be compatible enough
> as all floppies have 1 or 2 heads.
>
> Please could one (or four) of the floppy minors be mapped onto the
> first IDE LS-120 drive or sda1-4 of a Zip drive for multi-system boot
> 'super-'floppies because otherwise it's _impossible_ to predict which
> device the floppy drive will be so we can't mount root!

I was just messing around with putting a linux system on a single LS-120
(got KDE running off it) and what I did was dumb Stampede packages onto
/dev/hdd1 with tar xvpIf, so it didn't set up any of the config files or
anything like that. I also forgot to edit fstab, so it was all wrong. When
I went to boot (via loadlin), fsck gave me some errors and stuff, but it
got the root partition mounted read-write, even withought a valid fstab.
Yeah, it would certainly be nice to be able to depend on the LS-120 being
in a specific location, especially for using it on different systems, but
it's not necessary.

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