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From: jdl@cableol.co.uk (John Lagrue)
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:22:46 +0100 (BST)
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Russell King - ARM Linux Admin <rmk@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> This is a known problem, and a fax has been sent to Baildon
> Electronics. However, since I don't have an ICS interface card, I
> can't debug it. The obvious problems have been fixed to the docs that
> Baildon supplied, but it still doesn't work, and I don't know why. I
> am waiting a reply.
OK. Many thanks for your help so far; I will wait to hear from you.
[snip]
> It may be possible to use the ICS partitioning scheme - in other
> words, use ICS partition manager to setup a two new partitions at the
> end of the disk (and when the Linux kernel works with the ICS IDE card
> properly) reformat these partitions to be ext2 and swap. I have no
> idea what ICS IDEFS will make of them though.
Hhhmmmm.
I have managed to get rather further now. If I supply the extra commands
"hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" to the rpc kernel at boot time then it all boots
OK, accepts the boot floppy disc and then kicks off the RedHat
installation. Of course at this point it all grinds to a halt because the
Linux sources (the RPMs) are all in an X-files archive on the CDROM and I
have now no idea of what to do with them or how to get the installation to
read them.
Any further pointers would be very gratefully accepted :-)