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Topic: HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy, HD install "floppy" only

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Supcan
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Posted: June 03 2004,02:46

Ok, first off I have an old laptop I'm trying to work with...
it's a Toshiba T1910CS 486,200 MG HD, 8 MG RAM.

I got all the files onto the C drive, and everything looks good.
I make the floppy drive and when I go to boot up, I get BOOT FAILED.

I've read in other places that the syslinux can't be read by older machines...I've been told to try LILO to boot. Any idea where I can find a LILO boot disk or am I way off?

Thanks,
Supcan

AwPhuch

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Posted: June 04 2004,18:39

Double check your BIOS settings...
Im sure that machine should be able to run...

There are other threads that say 486 without coprocessor wont run the current kernel since it doesnt have mathcoprocessor support built in

Plus with 8Meg of RAM dont be suprised if you have to run your DSL in command line only as the graphics use alot more than 8Meg, thats alot of swappage!! My laptop with 16Meg is almost unbearably slow when I start opening files and whatnot...command line would be much much faster.

Brian
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Ian "Bill" Morris
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Posted: June 09 2004,13:26

I followed through the Hard Disk install but found that lilo would not be configured at the end. After some playing around I formatted the c:\ with the /s switch ie format c: /s which allowed lilo to be installed. Don't ask me why though.

Cheers

Bill

sci_fi
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Posted: June 09 2004,17:48

Hello AwPhuch:

Thanks for your write up and encouragement. I am trying to get dsl up on my old omnibook 900. Not quite the problem you had, but still not there yet.

I copied the knopix directory (after using isobuster) to my c drive and the created a boot floppy using rawwritewin. When attempting to boot, the system hangs while identifying hardware.

Any advice you could give on how to start troubleshooting from there would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

sci_fi

AwPhuch

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Posted: June 09 2004,19:23

Either you have a bad bootfloppy (driver modules corrupted) or it conflicts with some hardware...either disable everything you arent going to use in bios (com ports, ltp ports, extra ide controllers) or make a new bootfloppy. I had to burn 3 freeking bootfloppies before it would boot because they were bad even though it said it burned it sucessfully.

Hope this helps

Brian
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