Carlos, > I will try booting into setup (BIOS) and see if mine > recognizes the microdrive ... I tried booting into PCM-5822 BIOS and selected the "auto detect HDD" option. Mine didn't recognize the microdrive either. However, when I set both the primary and secondary IDE drives to "auto" it does work with linux. Like I said before, one easy way to get linux on there is to do a network install. I copied the redhat linux distro onto my web server and created a network boot disk. When I boot from floppy the install program automatically finds the right realtek ethernet driver and allows me to enter my IP address and such. Then it asks me where the server with the distro is, and it loads the second stage install image from there and completes the install. One interesting thing I noticed is that when the BIOS is set to auto detect the HDDs, the IBM microdrive shows up as secondary master, unlike my laptop drive, which shows up as primary master. But this doesn't affect the machine booting from microdrive when its the only HDD installed. The next step for me is to install Slackware on the microdrive. Seems that Slackware doesn't have the HTTP network install method, but they do allow just copying the files onto the local HDD and running the setup program from there. Since I already have a linux file system on there (from redhat install) it should be easy to do this. I will play around with Slackware install methods and make a mini howto for this. I also plan to put together a small wearable distro based on minimal Slackware components plus wearable stuff like emacspeak, and will be making that available so not everyone has to sift through every single package and decide which to keep or toss. If you want to verify that your microdrive works in the PCM-5822 try creating a network boot disk (use the DD util to write the file bootnet.img to floppy), then boot from floppy, choose HTTP install method, and point to the redhat site. I have tried this before and it works but is slow. A better method is to load the distro onto a local web server and point to it locally. It's also possible to install via NFS mounted machine or FTP, but I haven't tried those. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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