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- From: Vijay_Anand@transarc.com
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- Subject: Switching A: and B: floppy drives on GW2000
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:32:11 -0500 (GMT)
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- Folks,
-
- I was trying to boot Linux yesterday on my Gateway 2000 486-33 using
- my 3.5in drive which is configured as the B drive. I tried two things
-
- 1. Use the boot_b.exe shareware program that allows you to boot from B:
- 2. Switch the 4pin cables of the A and B floppy drives
-
- Neither worked. In the first case, Linux loaded fine, but once loaded it
- started reading the floppy in drive A (boot sector of A floppy written
- by boot_b) and bad things happenned. In the second case, the 3.5in drive
- still was B:
-
- My question to you folks is, how can I make the 3.5in drive the A:
- drive. Can I switch the cables and achieve this. I have a Gateway
- 4DX-33V with a 5.25in (1.2Mb) as A: and a 3.5in (1.44Mb) as drive B:.
- There are two connectors to each floppy drive. One is a 4pin connector,
- and the other one is a ribbon wire connector. I apologize for the bad
- terminology here, I don't have experience with PC hardware. I swapped
- the 4pin connectors of the A and B drives. Is this sufficient. I also
- corrected the system configuration (using Ctrl-Alt-Esc), but this didn't
- help.
-
- Can boot_b.exe be used to load Linux or other OS from the B: drive
- without opening the PC box. Is there someother pd/shareware program that
- can do this.
-
- If none of the above is possible, I guess I have to go out and buy
- 5.25in floppies. :(
-
- Thanks in advance for any tips. Please send me mail, and I will
- summarize to the net.
-
- Vijay
-