Hello
I am trying to resurrect an old computer. It can only boot off floppies.
I have another computer with a working floppy drive. I downloaded tomsrbt Tomsrbt web site, (has scrolling Text)image.
When I write it to a disk formatted to 1.722 mb, I can read it from Linux, but when I try booting
Lilo shows "LIL", then stops.
When I try reading the disk from MS-DOS, it can't be read since DOS doesn't support this density.
I am thinking, that LILO starts, but tries reading the rest of the disk as 1.44MB instead of 1.722 MB.
Back in the day, I remember loading linux from two floppies. A Boot Disk and then a USR disk.
Is there such a distribution still available? Many of the websites concerning old distros seem to be defunct.
I am trying to resurrect an old computer. It can only boot off floppies.
I have another computer with a working floppy drive. I downloaded tomsrbt Tomsrbt web site, (has scrolling Text)image.
When I write it to a disk formatted to 1.722 mb, I can read it from Linux, but when I try booting
Lilo shows "LIL", then stops.
When I try reading the disk from MS-DOS, it can't be read since DOS doesn't support this density.
I am thinking, that LILO starts, but tries reading the rest of the disk as 1.44MB instead of 1.722 MB.
Back in the day, I remember loading linux from two floppies. A Boot Disk and then a USR disk.
Is there such a distribution still available? Many of the websites concerning old distros seem to be defunct.