From: Brett Carroll (carrollb@wirefire.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 19:23:11 CET
No your other data will not be harmed.
You want to hook up you small HDD as drive D:, create a folder and put all
the Mu files in that folder.
follow the directions for installing..
I believe you unzip the dostools file, run unpack, then run install.
The safest way to do all this is to hook the drive up as D:, download all
the needed files,then un hook the C: drive and make your small drive C:,
this way there is no way you can mess anything up.
Once you run the install program Mu will boot itself up.
When you get to the screen with 3 options, just choose the clone option
Mu will go through the setup asking you a bunch of questions..(it will give
you suggestions if your not sure)
during setup Mu will automatically install any add-ons you have downloaded.
once the setup finishes, login, then shutdown....once the system is down
unplug the HDD and put it in your 386 and turn it on....everything should
work fine..
-Brett
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Wheare [mailto:maples@x-stream.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:58 PM
To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: 386sx 4mb
Just out of interest,
If I did the UMSDOS thing on my Celeron 450, it doesnt overwrite anything
on my HDD or partition itself, does it?
BW
At 08:44 23/01/01 -0500, Brett Carroll wrote:
>As noted in another message:
>
> >You will find 1100 suggested remedies on the list. My favorite is:
install
> >mu on your Pentium and clone to dos filesystem as umsdos. SET UP THE
SWAP.
> >Then (from dos or otherwise) copy the whole bleeding directory c:\linux
to
> >the small computer and boot mu from dos. Voil\'a.
>
>I have setup a 386/SX 4meg system and ran into the same problems you are
>talking about.
>You don't have enough memory to install the add-on packages...
>
>For a painless install you should:
>Hook the drive up to a faster machine with more memory and download all the
>necessary files and add-ons.
>then do the install from there. If you put all the files and add-ons in
the
>same directory Mu will see all the add-ons and install them at once.
>If you choose this method you don't need any floppy disks and it is much
>faster...
>
>-Brett
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gene [mailto:gene]On Behalf Of Gene Smith
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:11 AM
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Subject: 386sx 4mb
>
>
>My target system is 386sx 4mb, 114meg hd, floppy drive, Quadtel
>TACT83000 386sx BIOS v3.05.03
>
>I used the lowmem (lm) model and created a ROOT+BOOT and USR floppy
>using linux on another machine.
>
>When I boot the ROOT+BOOT floppy on the 386sx, it gets to the
>"Microsoft? is that ..." message, pauses a while then displays
>
>/linuxrc: Cannot fork
>Ram : bytes
>Cpu : 386
>
>At this point the boot process seems hung but I can scroll the console
>up and down.
>
>I also tried to build the ROOT floppy under DOS (actually NT) using
>Method 3 and the the root file was too large when rawriten to a F1722
>floppy. The file ROOT seemed to about 1,900,000 bytes! So I was unable
>to create the floppys using this method. Are the dos and linux methods
>supposed to produce similar floppies?
>
>The ROOT+BOOT floppy I made on linux boots fine on my usual pentium
>class linux computer.
>
>Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
>
>-Gene
>
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