13 Mar
2006
13 Mar
'06
11:04 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Yes, that's my backup plan - if I can find a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter (or
make
one). I'm trying to avoid pulling apart working hardware at the moment!
Hmmm, or my firewall box has a 2.5" IDE connector on board; I could stuff a
SCSI card in one of the PCI slots and boot from a SCSI CDROM, but install to
the 2.5" IDE disk I suppose...
Dennis Boone wrote:
(All I actually want to do is put Slackware Linux
on the machine there
in place of Debian, but the CDROM drive's too flakey to boot from. If
I can get MSDOS on there by copying from a remote machine then I can
boot the Slackware installer from MSDOS and then install the rest of
Slackware across the network - talk about complicated!!)
Why not mount the drive in another machine, and install slackware from
there? 2. Boot from a USB stick. (If your hardware is new
enough.)
Unfortunately not. CDROM, floppy (which I don't have) or hard disk only...
I'm just wondering what SYS actually does - perhaps io.sys and the like
*don't* actually need to be anywhere special on the drive (I think they
probably need to be hidden though). Maybe SYS just sets up the MBR with the
location of the necessary files - in which case, that's something that the
Grub setup should also do.
Hmm. So maybe I just need to copy the right DOS files to the FAT partition,
run the Grub installer, and it'll all automagically work - can't hurt for me
to try, anyway!
cheers
Jules