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Booting Linux from Jaz on PCMCIA-SCSI-Card of Laptop (GW2K Solo)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Bruhn)
Mon Aug 4 01:52:35 1997
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:49:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Peter Bruhn <bruhn@uiuc.edu>
To: linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi all!
I am going to install Linux on a Gateway 2000 Solo Laptop. It has a PCMCIA
SCSI-I-Card (Iomega Zip Card) and a Iomega Jaz-Drive (and a
PCMCIA-ethernet-card, too). I want to have Win 95 on the Harddisk and
Linux on a Jaz Disk. Did anybody do such an installation before?
The problem is that I would like to boot Linux from the Jaz drive, but
at boot time the Jaz is not available since there is no SCSI-driver and
no PCMCIA-driver yet.
(I also have problems to access the Jaz and the IDE-CD-ROM under DOS.
Somehow the Gateway Solo Laptop recognizes neither the SCSI-card nor the
CD-ROM in the MS-DOS mode, but it works under Win 95. Gateway-support
spent two hours with me on the phone today, without finding a solution
yet. Maybe anyone of you is smarter than Gateway and me. It would be great!)
I would highly appreciate to get any helpful tips very soon, since I
couldn't find enough information about it on all the how-to-pages and
don't want to spend days and weeks to test every possible way. All pages
I found so far deal either with SCSI or PCMCIA or Jaz or ..., but never
with my difficult configuration.
Thank you very much for your help
Peter
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