I've managed to get a 5-CD Linux set from Nov '95.  Boy oh boy am I having
fun and games with that.  What program do you reckon prints out "VFS:
Insert ramdisk floppy and press Enter"? I've checked the LILO source
code (only took 1-2 hours to find it), and that string is not there as far
as I can tell.

Anyway, I finally figured out that all I need to do is tell the silly
system that I am really low on memory, and to run off a floppy instead.  I
knew I should have bought 32 meg simms instead of 16 meg.  So finally I
managed to get it to read my boot disk instead of giving me a trap after
taking one look at my ramdisk (funny that it asks me to INSERT a ram disk?!
 Anyway, I went to look at my partition table with linux, and as well as
giving me strange numbers for my partition sizes, it has also determined
that the number of cylinders on the HD is 4969, which is what the BIOS
setup determined it to be, but since I have LBA, isn't all this meant to
have been remapped, so it can't tell the difference?

There is a possible problem that LBA is not actually doing a bloody thing
on my system.  How can I confirm whether LBA is activated properly?

BTW Rod, you asked me why I had 5 meg partitions.  I actually define them
and then delete them, so that I can add hard drive letters easily if my
configuration changes.  BFN.  Paul.

P.S. I have a minimum linux system, but it may not let you get very far. 
It consists of rawrite.exe, SBPCD and COLOR. SBPCD is designed to work with
sound blaster cdrom which is why I chose it.  But maybe I can make one of
the others available for FREQ.  It's all pretty messy actually, I will
probably get the new CD when it has the 2.0 kernel on it. 
@EOT:

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