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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: more installation silliness :)
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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:49:09 GMT
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raduga@netcom.com wrote:
: my PS/2 model 50 (286, 20 meg esdi(??) drive, 1 meg ram)
: seems to boot fine with the miniroot kernel;
: which recognizes the hd (and lets me mount it!)

: but the standard root kernel (with the ROOT image) 
: of the 1.7.0 distribution boots, but wont recognize my HD.

This may not be a driver problem - the standard root image
is ~600K, which will leave far too little memory over to
do anything.  In fact, it may not be able to initialise
the HD buffers, which would explain not recognising the HD.
The TINYROOT system is 200KB.

: Will i need to compile a new kernel with the proper drivers,
: in order to use it?

I'd try a smaller userdisk first; if you can mount the HD
off tinyroot, go with that and try building a small filesystem
on the hd.

: will i be able to compile a kernel in 1024k? 
: (or considerably less than that, since im booting
: with tinyroot RAMdisk into real mode) 

Yes.  I can recompile a kernel in 640KB in real mode.  The first
thing to try is the compiler -F flag, which stops the compiler
passes sharing memory, but you may need to get the root
filesystem onto the hard drive to use all the memory that
you have for processes alone.

: or assuming i cant, can someone send me a kernel,
: or point me to where i might be able to find one,
: that has an HD driver that will work?

You're actually better off with what you've got...




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