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How Do I Put the TurboNet CD Image on a Zip Disk?
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Posted by: ClearToLand

My TurboNet card should be arriving any minute now and I'm getting all my ducks in a row. I d/l'd the 25MB Silicondust TurboNet/AirNet Install CD Image and burned it to a CD/RW to see what was on it. Besides the TurboNet drivers, and a LOT of directories in a LOT of pretty colors, I noticed that it has MFS Tools version 1.1 - I'd like to take advantage of version 2.0 that I see on the "sticky".

Would it be possible to transfer the Silicondust CD Image to a Zip Disk and use that to boot linux? Then I could just add MFS Tools 2.0 in a separate directory and be on my merry "backup" way. I'm also planning on installing TiVoWeb, so, the more "stuff" I can get in one place, the better off I'll be.

If necessary, I have some "Unallocated Space" (outside of the Extended Partition) on the hard disk in my Windows machine. If I use PartitionMagic to create a 100MB "Linux Ext2" partition, will the TurboNet CD and/or a bootable floppy be able to "see" it and copy files there? If I could setup the directories and files that I want/need there, then all I would have to learn is how to do either make a bootable Zip Disk, or another bootable CD Image, and I'll be set. [Does linux have a parameter for the 'cp' command to recursively copy all subdirectories (like XCOPY /E for even the empty ones) ?

TIA...

Posted by: Cletus

Heh - booting a zip disk is a bit of black magic, be it in Linux or otherwise.

Copy recursively:
cp -R source destination

Even better:

cp -pdR source destination

(p=preserve owner, group and permissions; d= don't dereference symbolic links; R= copy recursively including FIFOs, device files, etc.)

BTW, you don't have to make a special ext2 partition if all you want to do is run an executable or two. Linux binaries can be run just as well from FAT/FAT32 partitions. ;)

Posted by: ClearToLand

quote:
Originally posted by Cletus
Heh - booting a zip disk is a bit of black magic, be it in Linux or otherwise.

How about creating another ISO CD Image, but with an added directory containing MFS Tools 2.0? Could you point me to the instructions for that (preferably from Windows, but, I'll stumble through linux if necessary). I have a Red Hat Linux 5.1 book & CD that I bought the same time as my TiVo (almost 2 years ago) and am reading about the "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440" command for a floppy. This is followed by "cd /boot cp vmlinuz /dev/fd0", then determine the root with "rdev" and type "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda3" and set it read-only with 'rdev -R /dev/fd0 1"

Since I've read a lot about /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda7, this sounds like something a bit different from what I'm seeking - in the fact that after booting from the floppy, it will expect to find a full linux installation on the HD in location /dev/hd3. I believe I want the linux installation to be on the zip disk (or the CD Image).

quote:
Copy recursively: cp -R source destination

Even better: cp -pdR source destination

(p=preserve owner, group and permissions; d= don't dereference symbolic links; R= copy recursively including FIFOs, device files, etc.)

BTW, you don't have to make a special ext2 partition if all you want to do is run an executable or two. Linux binaries can be run just as well from FAT/FAT32 partitions. ;)

What I'd "really" like to do is to be able to boot off a system with just the TiVo Drive A connected and have "all the linux utilities that I could ever need" on a bootable zip drive or CD/RW - safety and convenience.

Can you teach me (or point me to) some black magic??? Thanks!

Posted by: stormsweeper

burn MFS Tools 2 (static version) to a CDR. You can mount that after you boot the turbonet CD.