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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<BR>Starshine Technical Services, <A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A>
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<H3><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)"
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>Partition your HD before you try to use it.</H3>
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<p><strong>From Adam Ray on 23 Sep 1998 </strong></p>
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<blockquote><img src="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" alt="(!)"
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width="50" height="28" align="left" border="0"
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>What's this about non-partitioned? You <EM>have</EM> to partition the
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drive before you can use it as your root.
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<p><strong><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)"
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width="50" height="28" align="left" border="0"
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>Yep!
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I have an adaptec 1505 SCSI card (no bios). an a seagate 1gig
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SCSI HDD. I want to install linux to boot from a floppy, and
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then use the SCSI drive as the root. But when i put in the rescue
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disk and at the boot: prompt type "rescue aha152x=0x340,12,7,1"
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it finds the card then finds the drive, but it comes up with an
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error that the kernel can't load at something like "10:" i'm not
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sure if that is the exact number, but i' mnot a that machine
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right now. I was wondering if you could give me, or know where
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there is a blow-by-blow installationi tutorial for
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non-partitioned SCSI drives.
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<blockquote><img src="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" alt="(!)"
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>If you read the Linux Installation and Getting Started
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(LIGS) Guide from the LDP --- the Linux Documentation
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Project --- you'll find a fairly extensive discussion of
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'fdisk' and 'Lilo'.
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LDP is at <A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP"
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>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP</A>
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and many mirror sites.
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There are also man pages on 'fdisk' and Lilo --- and
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there is a pretty good Lilo guide (usually included as
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a .dvi or .ps PostScript file to provide the diagrams and
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illustrations).
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I realize that you won't be using Lilo in the usual way
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to load this copy of Linux (since a boot sector installed
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on your SCSI hard drive will never be reached by your
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BIOS's boot up sequence). However, reading the docs about
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the way its "usually" done can help understand the exception
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cases in any event.
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Another problem I see in this case is that you're trying
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to "rescue" a "new installation." That doesn't work.
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You use a "rescue" diskette to fix an damaged or
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misconfigured <EM>existing</EM> installation. To install a
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new system use an "installation" diskette. Most of the
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friendly installation programs out there these days
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(<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A>,
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<A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">S.u.S.E.</A> etc) will
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not handle your situation particuarly well. They should install
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just fine --- but they may not offer the option to "boot from diskette."
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So, use their installation to get to the point where it
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wants to run Lilo --- and let it do that even (no harm
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in it, even though you don't have a BIOS that will call on
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it). <EM>Then</EM> use the rescue diskette to boot into the
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running system and read the BootDisk HOWTO for advice on
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creating a custom boot diskette.
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You could also use Tom's Root/Boot (tomsrtbt at
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<A HREF="http://www.toms.net/rb"
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>http://www.toms.net/rb</A>) as the basis for your custom boot
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disk. It is the easiest single diskette distribution to
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customize (of the ones that I've tried).
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<p><strong><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)"
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width="50" height="28" align="left" border="0"
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>please E-mail me
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<p><strong>
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Thanks,
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<br>Adam
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 33 October 1998</H5>
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