[Trinux-talk] usb floppy boot

[George C. <san...@gr...>]

I have been having trouble getting trinux to boot properly. I am attempting to load trinux on a Sony notebook with a crashed hard drive (and no other internal drive). The bios has hooks to boot from a USB floppy, but not a CD-rom (PCMCIA or USB) or memory stick.

Trinux loads and the ramdisk installs, but it cannot mount the floppy. This means I can't load any additional packages--including the dhcp client needed to configure networking. I have tried booting with so-called plug-and-play turned both on and off in the BIOS.

Why can it load properly from floppy, but not mount it? Is thee a disk image available with USB support?

It appears to recognize my network card fine (a realtek 81?9).

Is there a way to put the things I need into the compressed ram disk tarball? I tried inserting them myself, but it did not work.
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