Re: Ruffian without floppy drive (fwd)

[Ling-En Kao <lekao CCCA nctu edu tw>]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, George France wrote:

> Hello Ling,
>
> I would also check the standard stuff, lose cables (both power and data), if
> the floppy activity light comes on and stays on, then you probably have the
> cable reversed, and it could also just be a bad floppy or cable.  If all else
> fails, Stefan is correct.
>
> Best Regards,
>

I've double-checked all the things above, but the floppy drive still
doesn't work.
Is that a problem on my onboard floppy drive controller?

Also, I tried to put ldmilo.exe and ruffian MILO image (from debian-3.0
and renamed to "milo") on a FAT-formatted partition.
After that, I run the ldmilo.exe from ARCSBIOS( version 1.3.058, the
machine hung after spitting out the following message:

 Load MILO Utility 1.1 (Copyright DeskStation Technology, Inc. 1997,1998)
 [JAY'S HACKED VERSION]

 Searching for MILO files in current partition...
 Loading MILO file: scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\milo
 MILO File with 565400 bytes loaded at 80500000

Is this procedure correct?

Thanks a lot!

  Ling.

>
> --George
>
> On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:00, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > * Ling-En Kao <lekao CCCA nctu edu tw> [031221 14:55]:
> > > Is there any means to install Linux on Ruffian without floppy drive or
> > > tips to get the floppy drive detected?
> >
> > IIRC, the Ruffian firmware does not allow booting from CDROM, unlike
> > AlphaBIOS. But you can install Milo and a kernel to your harddisk using
> > a different machine, put the harddisk back in and start the installation
> >
> >   Stefan
>
>