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<James Fidell> writes:
> 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.
>
Will this run w/o any problems on a
TP750Ce, 20MB, 340MB hard disk
If so, I am very much interested in the bootdisk/kernel iage.
Thanks,
/Pradeep