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Yes, I've finally got everything working!
I have a 755C with 20Mb RAM, DOCK 1, 540Mb disk.
The problems I had were :
o The standard Slackware bootdisk doesn't work.
o The bootdisk didn't work either, because it wouldn't recognise my
hard disk. It barfed because it couldn't handle the size of the
disk.
o The standard Linux kernel sources don't support the reversed logic
of the disk-change sense line.
So, I created my own boot disk using a 1.1.50 kernel having modified the
sources to support the disk-change sense stuff properly. The sources
have changed greatly since 1.0.9 on which the (reversed) patches at
peipa.essex.ac.uk are based. They have changed again between 1.1.50 and
1.1.54, I notice.
The 1.1.50 drive correctly handled the 540Mb disk, with geometry specified
as 524,32,63 and I got everything installed from the standard Slackware
disks. Then it was just a case of putting copying the boot kernel onto
the hard disk and running lilo to get the machine to boot from the
hard disk.
I've now got the 1.1.54 kernel built with networking support built in,
and it's running quite happily on our network :-)
If anyone want's the bookdisk/kernel image, let me know and I'll put it
up for FTP somewhere.
James.
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