Dave Beck (dave@arginine.umdnj.edu)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:58:46 -0400
Give the model type of the drive and if I have the same drive, I can
dd off the first couple hundred k (that includes the partition map)
which you can dd onto the front of your drives... of course you still
need to be able to boot enough linux to get the point of seeing the
internal drives and being able to dd an image to them.... ;)
Quoting Steve Leventhal (steve@leventhal.com):
> At 2:46 PM -0700 10/1/98, Nikos Mouat wrote:
> >- I tried to run 'quik -v' however it complained about only supported
> > ext2 filesystems (i thought it was an ext2 filesystem..)
>
> Note: I haven't gotten my 500 to boot yet (but I haven't really tried).
>
> I read that none of the Linux formatters would write the necessary drivers
> on the drive to use it. This is why we need to format the drive using some
> sort of Apple formatter, then recreate the partitions in a format (ext2)
> the Linux wants.
>
> This is the issue that I want to solve, as I have a couple of large drives
> in the 500, and I don't have anyplace to plug them in to format (Wide,
> SCSI2) except the 500.
>
> *sigh*
>
> Steve Leventhal
>
-- Dave Beck dave@arginine.umdnj.edu "DNA is the ultimate assembly Computer Science and Biology language for the ultimate Drexel University, Philadelphia PA computer: life"
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