Doug, Thanks for all the info. I did get Linux installed on 20GB IDE drive over the net. I was just wondering if the MicroDrive required anything special in the BIOS. It just does not see it. I puyt it back in the Tiqit and it works fine. Carlos > > 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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