Rapidweather
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Posted: Feb. 16 2004,23:31 |
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Oh, I've flashed a bunch of them, all with success. I tried several on this one, but finally gave up.
What I have done, is boot slave hard drives off the little primary master on the first IDE channel, using ms-dos batch files, and loadlin. I have a big setup like that, with all the Linux distros I could come up with, and have a bunch of icons on the Windows desktop, one for each distro. So, if I click on SuSE, then Windows 98 closes, and SuSE boots. All I have to do is put the kernel for each in a directory with loadlin, and I'm good to go.
Damn Small needs very little space, so I have /knoppix in with the Windows partition, and filetool.sh also. Then I have a little 30 mb partition for the backup.tar.gz, and filetool.lst.
If I don't get the filetool.sh right (it points to the little 30 mb backup partition), then I have to boot off the DSL cd, and go in and fix it. The Scite editor is way better than trying to get things fixed (edited) with tomsrtbt or bootE linux on floppies.
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Great fun all around. Windows 98 usually is the hardest to work with, since if you change the cards around in the slots, etc, then the registry gets out of kilter.
I just run thru another install, and Windows 98 comes right back up, with my desktop, applications and all, and the registry is correct. I notice that DSL "autoconfigures devices" on bootup, so it's not only Small, but Tough. Almost makes Windows obsolete.
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