[S.u.S.E. Linux] LS 120 Support in SuSE 5.0
Greetings Need some info please. Tried to install my old vesrion of SuSE 5.0 on my friends computer (this way he could have the manual, disc set ext....and I could keep my 5.1 set) but ran into some problems. Could solve most of them other than the LS 120 not being recognized by Yast install program and the Xserver requirement (Rage Pro chip set) The Xserver was addressed and solved. However when you partition the drive with Yast you need to store the file system on a disc and reboot for the changes to take effect. However the LS 120 is not recognized by Yast. I solved this by removing the hard drive (luckily it was portable) and partitioned on a 486 backup machine with a standard floppy. So here are my two questions. Im assuming that the newest versions of Yast support the LS120 drives, yes or no? Secondly is there a way to get the new version of Yast integrated into the 5.0 install procedures. The only thing I can think of is to transfer the latest version of Yast to the machine via a zip drive but this is putting the horse befor the cart as a Linux OS would not be installed yet. I would like to be able to recycle the older versions of SuSE but this is complicated by hardware issues. By the way my buddy lives some 500 km away and nows nothing about Linux. Hence I need to do all this upfront. Yes I know 5.1 can so all this but this is not the point. I am trying to figure out a way to recycle the not so current versions. Similar issues will come up with 5.1 after 5.2 international version is released. Any ideas would be appreciated. TIA chris -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi, On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Chris Herrnberger wrote: [...]
a 486 backup machine with a standard floppy. So here are my two questions. Im assuming that the newest versions of Yast support the LS120 drives, yes or no? Secondly is there a way to get the new version
The newest kernels support the LS120, but YaST doesn't yet. It will need some major changes as the LS120 is accessed in a different way than "normal" floppies (it is treated as a removable harddisk /dev/hd{a,b,c,d} instead of /dev/fd0). But you can install Linux on such a machine. Whenever YaST asks for a floppy, just say "no". This doesn't do any harm, you just will have to type some information a second time if you reboot during the installation. Also you should not try to create a bootdisk from YaST as this will fail too (creating a bootdisk is not that important anymore as you can boot your installed system using the installation bootdisk). There might be one problem if your system has a SCSI adapter or another component installed that needs a driver module to be loaded by linuxrc: Linuxrc also doesn't yet know how to handle the LS120, so it is unable to load the driver modules from disk. But there's an easy workaround for that problem: Write the file /suse/images/boot from CD#1 to disk (using rawrite.exe for example). This bootimage is used when booting from CD. Therefore it contains a large initrd that contains all drivers. So there is no need for linuxrc to load additional drivers from floppy. But please note that you should have at least 8MB of RAM in order to use this boot image.
of Yast integrated into the 5.0 install procedures. The only thing I can think of is to transfer the latest version of Yast to the machine via a zip drive but this is putting the horse befor the cart as a Linux OS would not be installed yet. I would like to be able to recycle the older versions of SuSE but this is complicated by hardware issues. By the way my buddy lives some 500 km away and nows nothing about Linux. Hence I need to do all this upfront. Yes I know 5.1 can so all this but this is not the point. I am trying to figure out a way to recycle the not so current versions. Similar issues will come up with 5.1 after 5.2 international version is released. Any ideas would be appreciated.
TIA
chris
I hope this answers your questions or makes them at least obsolete ;-) Hubert -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Got it Hubert, thanks. Obselecence is good. Hubert Mantel wrote: I hope this answers your questions or makes them at least obsolete ;-) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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