hi all. Well I spent most of yesterday and this morning finding a way to make floppy disk images using Teledisk, boy was that a painful process..... (3 versions of teledisk later, and using a 486dx4-75 laptop to get it working..) so now i have some disks made up, i want to get my 9100 to boot them.. but can i heck. Late last night i'm sure i saw a pdf that had a software install procedure, but i can't for the life of me find it now, i have looked on flippers again for it, but can't find it, forest for the trees... can anyone let us know how to make the 9100 boot from floppy, or remind me of the pdf file that i saw so i can just get on with it myself? this is driving me crackers... ultimately i am going to try to upgrade my system software from 4.1 to 6.0 (i searched TTL and found that the 6.1 disk images are bad - john can you mark these as bad in the ftp? i wasted quite a bit of time before finding this out heh) and also upgrade the feeble 2mb ram to 4mb or whatever i can get to work... i also need to get the videocard that i have installed to work too.... but first things first i want to get the software upgraded.... thanks! Andy _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
i searched TTL and found that the 6.1 disk images are bad
Are you sure? They extracted onto floppies just fine for me, but I haven't used them to update my OS yet. Alex ---- ayeckley@elektronforge.com www.elektronforge.com _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
Sure, they extracted just fine for me too, made some dics up without problems... but from searching TTL it looks like they don't work when they're actually used on the 9100 : http://www.vectorlist.org/TechTools/2004/03/0000.html of course, i havn't got even to that stage yet because i can't get my 9100 to boot from floppy, i had assumed putting the disk in and switching on it should find the disk and try to run off that, but no luck for me trying that... any thoughts? Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Yeckley" <ayeckley@sierralobo.com> To: "'Technical Tools Mail List'" <techtoolslist@flippers.com> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] booting 9100 from floppies
i searched TTL and found that the 6.1 disk images are bad
Are you sure? They extracted onto floppies just fine for me, but I haven't used them to update my OS yet.
Alex ---- ayeckley@elektronforge.com www.elektronforge.com
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of course, i havn't got even to that stage yet because i can't get my 9100 to boot from floppy, i had assumed putting the disk in and switching on it should find the disk and try to run off that, but no luck for me trying that...
any thoughts?
Make a set ofthe 6.0 images. The 6.1's can't be trusted. I have a set of 6.1 data, and honestly its minimally different from 6.0. Somewhere I have notes that show which binaries/libraries have any differences at all. Anyway, to boot from floppy, just hold down SOFTKEY-F2-F4 while booting. It will skip the HD and attempt to load from floppy. _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
I have complete hardcopy docs for the 9100 which I would be glad to lend to someone who can use them to answer these questions and come up with a protocol to make these disks easily. I will pay postage out, recipient will pay postage back to me. Gotta be at least 10 pounds of books. No particular time frame on returning them, something like 45 or 60 days is ok with me Art ----- Original Message ----- From: "andy" <warlords@punkass.com> To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist@flippers.com> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:52 AM Subject: [Techtoolslist] booting 9100 from floppies
hi all.
Well I spent most of yesterday and this morning finding a way to make floppy disk images using Teledisk, boy was that a painful process..... (3 versions of teledisk later, and using a 486dx4-75 laptop to get it working..) so now i have some disks made up, i want to get my 9100 to boot them.. but can i heck.
Late last night i'm sure i saw a pdf that had a software install procedure, but i can't for the life of me find it now, i have looked on flippers again for it, but can't find it, forest for the trees...
can anyone let us know how to make the 9100 boot from floppy, or remind me of the pdf file that i saw so i can just get on with it myself? this is driving me crackers...
ultimately i am going to try to upgrade my system software from 4.1 to 6.0 (i searched TTL and found that the 6.1 disk images are bad - john can you mark these as bad in the ftp? i wasted quite a bit of time before finding this out heh) and also upgrade the feeble 2mb ram to 4mb or whatever i can get to work... i also need to get the videocard that i have installed to work too.... but first things first i want to get the software upgraded....
thanks!
Andy
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