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TiVoDan
10-03-2006, 05:07 AM
I am trying to upgrade from an 80 GB to a 300 GB HD. The PC, that I have at the moment, has dead secondary IDE bus, so I can't attach 2 hard drives plus a CD drive. Is there a floppy that has the LBA48 kernal and MFStools?
Freightdog
10-03-2006, 09:28 AM
The boot cd image is at least 10 - 12 mb, so I see no way you could get that on a 1.44mb floppy. I doubt the linux kernal would even fit by itself. (But I don't know its size)
robn77
10-03-2006, 01:55 PM
I just downloaded linux and loaded it into a spare HD so I could run the backup/restore without the CD. My Dell only has one IDE connector.
TiVoDan
10-03-2006, 08:13 PM
The boot cd image is at least 10 - 12 mb, so I see no way you could get that on a 1.44mb floppy. I doubt the linux kernal would even fit by itself. (But I don't know its size)
the old CD image was also that big, but there was a floppy too. I can't imagine that the LBA48 kernel is that much bigger
TiVoDan
10-03-2006, 08:39 PM
Ok i had an idea I was wondering if will work:

since i only have 1 ide bus,

would it be possible connect the source drive t the master and the new drive to the slave and to use the old MFStool 2.0 floppy to

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zpi - /dev/hdb

then disconnect the old drive and connect the CD drive to the master and use the weeknees CD to
mfsadd -r 4 -x /dev/hdb

any problems with that?
HomeUser
10-03-2006, 09:37 PM
Your 2 step process should work, go for it. Report back and Let us know how it works out.

Does your computer support booting from a USB drive there are Linux distributions that fit well on a 32M USB thumb drive.
TiVoDan
10-03-2006, 10:15 PM
Your 2 step process should work, go for it. Report back and Let us know how it works out.

Does your computer support booting from a USB drive there are Linux distributions that fit well on a 32M USB thumb drive.
this computer doesn't even have a usb port, it's a 10 year old Gateway P5-166.
HomeUser
10-03-2006, 11:11 PM
this computer doesn't even have a usb port, it's a 10 year old Gateway P5-166. It would be perfect if only both IDE channels worked have you checked the BIOS settings. For 2 years I thought the CD drive was bad in the Gateway2000 at work then one day I was in the BIOS and discovered that the internal EIDE controller was set to Primary instead of both.
TiVoDan
10-04-2006, 04:25 PM
It would be perfect if only both IDE channels worked have you checked the BIOS settings. For 2 years I thought the CD drive was bad in the Gateway2000 at work then one day I was in the BIOS and discovered that the internal EIDE controller was set to Primary instead of both.

Good call with the BIOS, now all drives are being recognized. :)

Npw a diffferent problem is showing up. when i try to boot the Weaknees CD, the kernel starts loading, but after about 3 seconds the computer reboots. i'm thinking the problem is another BIOS issue, but i don't know what it would be.
HomeUser
10-04-2006, 05:07 PM
Did it boot from the CD before?


Bad/Corrupted image or burn on the CD
Bad CD drive

Memory issues

Hardware conflict (could be why the IDE was turned off) try removing unused hardware the Modem, Sound card, Network card ...
wscannell
10-04-2006, 05:37 PM
If the above does not work, you might try the ptvupgrade.com LBA48 boot CD instead.
TiVoDan
10-04-2006, 09:54 PM
Did it boot from the CD before?

Bad/Corrupted image or burn on the CD
Bad CD drive

Memory issues

Hardware conflict (could be why the IDE was turned off) try removing unused hardware the Modem, Sound card, Network card ...

CD boots on my core duo iMac. Removing harware from the PC didn't help.