Re: TP600 (crippled) install question

[Thorsten Glaser <tg-20037@netcologne.de>]

Dixitur illum fbax@sympatico.ca scribere...

>My ThinkPad 600 is somewhat crippled.  No floppy disk.  Attempt to boot 

Oh my. I've done the following today:
 - make partition of type A5 (FreeBSD) with GNU/Linux
 - create (Free)BSD disklabel inside that with GNU/Linux fdisk
 - write /boot sector by sector on some _other_ area of the disc
 - do the job of "installboot" by hand: write into biosboot where
   /boot is on the disc
 - cat biosboot >/dev/hda4 (BSD partition)
 [ useless stuff snipped - try'n'error ]
 - dd if=/dev/hda4 of=bs_plus_disklabel count=2
 - cat cdrom34.fs >/dev/hda4
 - cat bs_plus_disklabel >/dev/hda4
 - change type to 0xA6
 - reboot, install

Well, I did more than that (including Lunix kernel freezes
when attempting to write data to the mounted FFS filesystem,
but touching (=creating) files worked... wtf), but that's
it when you strip it down.

The hard part is getting biosboot right.

That was an (IIRC) x30.

//Thorsten
-- 
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but
what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be-
ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there
was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :)	-- Ted Unangst über *fs