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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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> Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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>> 2. It will show the disks and ask you to select the one you want. |
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>> Select the external drive (They are labeled a, b, c, etc. You should |
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>> see a & b; pick the one corresponding to your external drive. If it's |
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>> not obvious from the disk name, by using brute force you can do this |
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>> twice, once with the external drive on and once not.) |
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>> 3. boot ^Y (Ctrl-Y), or 'devalias gentoo ^Y' and then 'boot gentoo' |
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> Err. None of a, b, c could boot. I feel a bit wired, a) is cdrom, b) is |
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> ide@3/disk but the hdd on IDE card should be ide5 (count from 1) or ide4 |
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> (count from 0) |
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What's c? ide@3/disk looks exactly right for the internal drive. (I |
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suppose c is the floppy?) |
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And, instead of 'show-disks' you can use 'show-devs' and see everything. |
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Then you will see what's on your external card if the system can see it. |
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(It should be another ide@?/disk, I would think.) |
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Perhaps a solution is for you during the install to put the /boot |
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partition onto the internal drive and install the boot loader there. |
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(This should work fine unless you need to preserve it.) |
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Then put / onto the external drive, and follow the installation |
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guide for setting up the configuration. |
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I have to admit that when I did this with a U10, my external drive was |
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a SCSI drive so it was attached to a scsi card. I don't know how |
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disks get numbered when you have both the internal IDE disk and an |
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external IDE disk on a different controller... |
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> Is it possible at all to put the boot loader onto floppy like some people did |
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> for their x86 box? I see the kernel is pretty big (3.6MB), but squezze down |
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> it seems could reach 1.44MB. |
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Those are questions for someone else. My kernel (U2-SMP) compressed is: |
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4085 26640 1574624 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-r1-SMP |
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So you have two questions: |
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1. Will Gentoo boot of the floppy? And if so, |
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2. Can you take enough out of the kernel & put it into modules |
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to fit the kernel + the boot loader onto a floppy? |
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I am sure your situation is addressed somewhere, but I've never run |
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across it. |
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Good luck, keep trying, and come back with questions. Eventually |
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someone who knows the answer will get tired of reading my responses |
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and will feed you better information. |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc) |
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