Just been testing a few more Linux Distros but it appears the 6gig BigFoot hard drive has finally given up due to all the abuse it has had over the last couple of weeks.
Debian based Distros gave error messages but noting specific when it got the partitioning the setup and you just go around in a loop tying to sort it out. I was booting these CDs/DVDs from the Plop boot loader floppy.
Most of the sourced based Distro just kicked me out to the command prompt shell using Plop bot loader floppy to boot. I had the Slackware 3.5 boot floppys handy so replaced Plod with its boot disks. All went fine up to the installation menu. I exited the menu and ran cfdisk. Finally!! It gave me a primary partition error.
Pulled out all the stops and tried the following:
IBM Dos 6.3 boot floppy- fail
MS Dos 6.33 boot floppy-fail
MS Dos 5 boot floppy-f ail
China Dos Union MS Dos 7.1 boot disk- fail
OS/2 v3 Red Spine boot floppy-fail
OS/2 V3 Blue Spine boot floppy- fail
Partition Magic boot floppy-fail
Using most Linux boot floppys just locked up trying to access the CD/DVDs at the SYSLINUX notice.
The Plop boot disk booted up to its menu every time without fail so it is not the fdd that is at fault.
Is the BigFoot hard drive really stuffed or can it be sorted out.....?
Stay tuned for the next installment