From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Need help creating a boot disk Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 20:14:33 GMT
In article <1992Mar15.064233.15653@athena.mit.edu>, alsaggaf@ERL.MIT.EDU (Muhammad Saggaf) writes:
> In article <1992Mar15.042200.16669@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
> rahard@ee.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
> >I've decided to try linux am having a problem creating a boot disk.
> >- downloaded rawrite.exe and bootimage (0.12 and 0.95)
> >- use rawrite to create boot disk, it say disk has 9 sectors
> > (I am using 360K disk on my XT to do this)
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> I did the same. In my case, when I booted up with the bootimage
> diskette in my 360K drive a, I got the mesaage: "Loading ..... ". The
> dots went on for a while and then nothing happened, I didn't even get
> the above CX ... etc. message. I have a 386sx-25 (AMD) with 2MB of
> RAM. Any help is greatly appreciated.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read the documentation files folks!
From the INSTALL-0.12 file:
>READ THIS THROUGH, THEN READ INSTALL-0.11, AND IF YOU ARE SURE YOU KNOW
>WHAT YOU ARE DOING, CONTINUE. OTHERWISE, PANIC. OR WRITE ME FOR
>EXPLANATIONS. OR DO ANYTHING BUT INSTALL LINUX - IT'S VERY SIMPLE, BUT
>IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING YOU'LL PROBABLY BE SORRY. I'D
>RATHER ANSWER A FEW UNNECESSARY MAILS THAN GET MAIL SAYING "YOU KILLED
>MY HARDDISK, BASTARD. I'M GOING TO FIND YOU, AND YOU'LL BE SORRY WHEN I
>DO".
And from the INSTALL-0.11 file:
>Linux-0.11 can easily be booted by getting the 2 files bootimage-0.11.Z
>and rootimage-0.11.Z from the linux archive, uncompressing them and
>writing them out to disks of the same size (ie 2 1.44M floppies or 2
>1.2M floppies). ^^^^^^^^^
Now, the rootimage-0.12.Z file is 1.2MB uncompressed. Pray tell how
do you get all of that onto one 360K floppy?!
Let's use some common sense. VERY few 386 systems these days come
with a floppy disk drive not capable of at least 1.2MB (otherwise
it is NOT an AT compatible).
From the INFO-SHEET file:
>3. HARDWARE REQUIRED
> - A 386 or 486 machine with an AT-bus. (EISA will probably work, also,
> but you will need an AT-bus hard disk controller.)
> Both DX and SX processors will work.
> - A hard disk implementing the standard AT hard disk interface--
> for example, an IDE drive. SCSI drives are not supported yet.
> - A high-density disk drive--either 5.25" (1.2MB) or 3.5" (1.44MB).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> - At least 2 megabytes of RAM. (LINUX will boot in 2 Mb. To use
> gcc 4 MB is a good idea.)
> - Any video card of the following: Hercules,CGA,EGA,VGA
By the way, shouldn't the RAM requirement be a RAM + swap space requirement?
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