Re: ELKS on HD from 360 or 720 Floppy?

Re: ELKS on HD from 360 or 720 Floppy?

[Vikas Kumar]

Hi Patrick,
how are you ?
well u can connect your HDD if it is detachable to a regular computer
and use dd  from the 360 floppy to the HDD  .. of course u will need
to have another machine with Linux on it...
if u r trying to directly install onto the HDD from the floppy using
the 1200 laptop itself, i guess it is tough, because in the olden days
all the booting was done by floppies. Does the hardware BIOS know that
it has to read from the Master Boot Record on the HDD ?
have you been able to install MS-DOS on it ? because if u can do that
u should be able to install ELKS :) although anything might be
wrong....
if something is already on the hard-drive and you do not need it,
maybe you can run dd on the harddrive and zero (/dev/zero) it out
completely (no data) and then try installing ELKS ....
also does your harddrive work on other machines if connected ? how do
you know it is fully functional ?

vikas


On 4/27/06, Pat Gilliland <pgillil@cyberus.ca> wrote:
>
> I understand your problem. I am trying to install ELKS on a Toshiba 1200 HD
> from 720 floppies.
>
> Has anyone come up with a method to install onto HD from 360 or 720
> floppies?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pat G
>
> Still using ELKS for production work.
> Patrick Gilliland
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ELKS on HD from 360 or 720 Floppy?

[Pat Gilliland]

>On Thursday 27 April 2006 15.55, Pat Gilliland wrote:
>> >Hello i we struggled hit this fore some time now
>> >on my 286 i have  install EDE-ELKS becorse it have 1´44 floppy
>> >but on my 8088 "8086 but slower" it only have 5´25 flex-floppy's
>> >i cant get this in with EDE-Elks someone how now how to do ?
>> >tried the way described in the manual wont go someone got any idea ?
>> >i now it runs on it do i have a similar Toshiba 1100 laggtop it works
>>
>> f>ine
>>
>> >there but only on floppy do it dont have any HardDrive
>> >
>> >Kindly reguards Fille
>> >
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>> What capacity are your 5.25" floppies? You may be able to use the older
t>wo
>> disk image with boot and root on separate disks.
>> Patrick Gilliland
>> InkPot Productions
>> www.inkpotproductions.ca
>> (613) 722-1439
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>
>Now that the custion became a litle weard do my wishes is that it be some 
>way to install with 360k  5´25 to hardrive on my desktop 8088 
>iwe only hawe this 360k 5,25" at home so i wount put it out and in more
tim>es 
>been like 20 times now ! 
>
>i´we only wont to have elks on hard drive on my 8088 whit 360k drive only>

>
>Kindly regurds Fille

I understand your problem. I am trying to install ELKS on a Toshiba 1200 HD
from 720 floppies.  

Has anyone come up with a method to install onto HD from 360 or 720
floppies?

Thanks

Pat G

Still using ELKS for production work.
Patrick Gilliland
InkPot Productions
www.inkpotproductions.ca
(613) 722-1439
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