[wplug] Help with Installing 500GB Western Digital Drive

[Greg Simkins]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Hence the questions ...
> - What kernel are you using?
> - What distro is this?
>
> Kernel can be found with "uname -r"
> Distro depends, but it's sometimes in "cat /etc/*-release"
>   
Thanks for the help.  

I was able to get the floppy drive functioning and a floppy system disk and booted up on that.  I ran afudos.exe and get this message:

Usage: afudos /i<ROM filename> [/o<save ROM filename>]

I presume the second option /o is not necessary.  I guess it wants me to 
type something like
a:\>afudos /iI8019A00.500  

The file is 1mb so I have to put it on a separate 1.44MB floppy disk.  I 
am afraid to start this process if I don't know exactly what to do.  I 
figure that I could type:
a:\>afudos /ib:I8019A00.500, but I have no idea what would happen if it 
doesn't load properly.  I didn't find anything yet about loading 
directly from BIOS - I will keep looking.

I ran uname -r and got:  2.6.20-15-generic.  I downloaded it recently so 
I assume it is the latest 64 bit system. 

cat /etc/lsb-release ==>
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=feisty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.04"