[BL] Linux without a hard drive, was Re: MPlayer
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Tue Jun 28 15:48:30 EDT 2005
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
> We are trying to find a use for a 500MHz laptop Compaq Armada M700 with
> 320MB RAM but no hard drive or caddy for it. We got it to boot by
> unplugging and replugging CMOS battery. To get it to power off and on,
> plug and unplug the power cable and make sure there is no battery in the
> battery slot (the large battery).
>>
>>> sindi keesan wrote:
>>>
>>>> The computer appears to be booting properly now, so we are back to
>>>> the problem of how to use it without a hard drive after booting
>>>> from floppy disk. Can we, while it is turned on, remove the floppy
>>>> drive so as to insert the DVD-ROM drive? We could then run linux
>>>> from a parport zip drive, booted from floppy disk with grub, and
>>>> play DVDs.
>>>
>>> Usually, single drive bays in laptops are hot-swappable.
I found a review which said this multi-drive is hotswap.
I tried to boot with the zip-drive boot disk that David made (imm) but it
gets stuck every time just after Checking for popad bug...OK (the next
line should be POSIX conformance testing).
BL3 2-floppy set won't boot - error 0x10
BL2 2-floppy booted and I could insmod loop parport parport_pc scsi_mod
sd-mod and imm, chroot to the zip drive after mounting fs.img on it on a
loop, and run mplayer from there, slowly (but I have to set up sound for
this cmoputer). It is rather a slow way to go about this.
DSL might be slightly faster but I would have to su and then insmod imm
and then chroot.
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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