Re: Multia VX40

["Ben T. Eisemann" <ben eisemann com>]

You can try http://www.starshipcorp.com I think they sell floppy drives for
the mutlia for about $30 or so.  Also, if you are lucky and have an old
laptop that you want to gut 9 times out of 10 those floppy drives will work
in the multia ( I got two of my drives that way).   In answer to your first
question you WILL need a floppy drive in the UDB (universal desktop box is
the name given to the multia when it is running linux).  You can try
working with out it but it might be a pain in the butt.  RH5 should install
fine with the remote NFS mount, although I have attempted an install like
that with little success, I imagine if you pursue it a little further you
should get somewhere.

Good Luck,
Ben T. Eisemann


At 06:50 AM 5/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all..
>
>I have a VX40 with WinNT 4.0 on it. I've seen all I want to see of
>NT, so I'm looking to upgrade the Multia and install Linux.
>
>As I see it, that means I need to get a floppy drive into this thing.
>
>I have Linux running on my Pentium, and the plan that I have for
>installing on the Multia is to NFS export the Redhat CD from the Pentium
>and mount it on the Multia, and then just install. I've never installed
>Redhat before (I'm running a incrementally hand upgraded Slackware that
>is about 2 years old or so), will it install ok this way?
>
>Assuming that it will, this leaves the problem of getting the Multia
>to boot Linux to begin with.. so I need to install a floppy drive.
>Does anyone know of a source for floppy drives and cabling for Multias?
>I have not checked with DEC yet, but I assume that they are no longer
>sold.
>
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