--- Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > Basically I saw that the only difference between me and Pekka was
> the
> > FW (discounting the different CPU speed and Kernel version). I
> googled
> > around and found the IBM FW page at:
> >
> >
>
http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-41008
> >
> > Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download Manager".
> Main
> > problem is that one needs a bootable floopy drive and "the other
> OS" to
> > create a bootable floppy. It would be great if IBM could provide
> floppy
> > images for use with "dd" for the poor Linux users.
>
> Did you really need to make 18 diskettes?
>
yikes - no !! :-) Somewhere on that page there is a table that tells
you which of the 18 floppies is for your disk. In my case it was #13.
> I have the feeling that this will work for many T4[012]p? users:
>
>
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TPAD-HDFIRM
>
Yeah, I think that is the "DA" version. You still need "the other OS",
although you don't need the floppy.
If IBM would provide a CD image (bootable ISO) containing FW for all
supported drives - that would be great. No need for the "other OS" any
more.
Cheers
Martin
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Martin Knoblauch
email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de
www: http://www.knobisoft.de
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