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["Ian" <info AT freedomnet.org.uk>]

The spec says that this laptop ships with a 2GB hard drive. Might be best if 
you restrict your
self to that. You could make a 2GB partition on your SD card. You could make 
four :)

Ian.

On 18 Mar 2018 at 21:57, Gilles Devillers wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I recently got my hands on an old HP OmniBook 5700 running Windows 95 
> stock. The hard drive
> needed to be replaced so I bought an IDE-to-SD adapter. I managed to 
> install Windows 95 on an
> 2 GB card (8 GB wouldn't work). I then played a bit with Debian 2.2 
> (Potato), Debian 3.0
> (Woody), KolibriOS and BL3 by only booting from floppies.
> I'm quite new to BL (and LILO) and I wanted to install it on my blank 8 GB 
> SD card. The
> installation process went flawlessly (formatting, writing filesystem then 
> install-to-hd), I installed
> LILO with "lilo -v" and everything but I cannot boot from the hard drive 
> (SD card), the computer
> just goes idle forever. I can however boot to the hard drive using BL's 
> floppy 1, press CTRL
> when "LILO" shows up and type "hd root=/dev/hda1" as the instructions says.
>
> Do you know why LILO won't launch at startup? Could it be because the SD 
> card is too big? I
> saw it caused problems to Windows, and fdisk says "The number of cylinders 
> for this disk is set
> to 15634. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, 
> and could in certain
> setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old 
> versions of LILO) [...]".
> Any ideas on how I could fix my problem? Ideally I would want to have a 
> multi-boot card with
> Debian, KolibriOS and BasicLinux but I don't know if I will be able to make 
> it work...
>
> Many thanks,
>
> -------------------------
> Gilles Devillers - GilDev



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