[ltp] 760XL with a BIG HD Problem

[Adam Southerland]

Floppy disk sets... The more I think of it, the more I fear it... But I got 
an idea (Haven't gone looking for the boot manager yet... Might have deleted 
that e-mail - no room) [I need to look into this LILO, GRUB Boot from CD 
loader thing... sounds promising =)]

My Idea... This 10Gb drive came from a BUSLink USB Hard Drive... This 
morning, I put it back on my Windows Machine, Repartitioned it to contain a 
600Mb Partition and copyied the important Slackware files to it (Not done 
just yet) -- Then put it in Laptop, boot Linux boot disk and start the 
install from there...   I think it's a plan! =)

What was the name of the boot manager again? Sorry, I have VERY LITTLE space 
on this hotmail account...

Adam

>From: James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@sprintpcs.com>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] 760XL with a BIG HD Problem
>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:54:02 -0700
>
>James:
>
>You might want to look at lilo.conf or grub.conf to see how they are 
>constructed.  I don't know about using a CD as a boot device from one of 
>them.  I do know that the device is /dev/hdc.  You should be able to use 
>this as the boot device for the CD, as most CDs do not have partitioning, 
>unless they are multi-session.
>
>James McKenzie
>
>James Knott wrote:
>
>>Adam Southerland wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Use the Parallel port as a NIC... Interesting Concept... Can Slackware do 
>>>that with the supplied boot/root disks?
>>
>>
>>No idea.
>>
>>>
>>>How big is the partition? Doesn't matter - The smallest I tried was 
>>>25Mb... As long as the 10Gb Drive has a partition on it, MS products 
>>>can't boot - Even from a Boot Disk! (I haven't ever seen this before)
>>
>>
>>I don't recall the exact model, but I booted a ThinkPad of that generation 
>>(76x) with an 8 MB drive.  It worked fine with OS/2.
>>
>>I wonder if it's possible to put Grub or Lilo on that drive and tell it to 
>>boot from the CD?
>>
>>Also, is Slackware still available as floppy sets, so that you don't need 
>>a CD to install?
>>
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