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Hi, I'm installing Linux (Slackware, 2.0 kernel) on my Thinkpad 701CS. What I want to do is to have all of Linux except for a tiny boot floppy or partition on my external SCSI device (IOMega Jaz), which is connected via a New Media Bus Toaster PCMCIA card. What I've succeed in doing so far is to setup a small partition on the Thinkpad's hard drive with a basic core of Linux including PCMCIA support. This happily recognises the Bus Toaster and allows me to access the Jaz drive - but by this time my root partition is /dev/hda3 and I can't change it to be /dev/sda1. How can I get round this? Presumably I need to create a LILO boot image with PCMCIA built in that sets up PCMCIA support before trying to mount the root (SCSI) directory. I realise that I could keep my core Linux on the hard disk and setup various partitions - /usr, /etc, /lib etc on the Jaz disk, but this is messy. I would much prefer to have everything for Linux on the Jaz disk (the whole filesystem in one partition) with only the required boot (LILO?) files on the Thinkpad or floppy. All suggestions/guidelines would be most welcome - although I'm experienced in Unix, I'm new to Linux (and LILO) - please be detailed in any Linux/LILO specific instructions. cheers, Andrew.