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Re: MS-DOS boot [Was: Installation report: SETUP.EXE dysfunctional]



On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
Lee Winter, le Sat 29 Aug 2009 22:09:14 -0400, a écrit :
> Getting an image of the CD onto a disk drive is not hard.  Even PC-DOS can
> handle that.  But once the image or copy resides on the drive the expected
> installation mechanism seems to be completely useless.

BTW, now that 518807 is fixed, is there a reason why

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518808
(Documentation about booting from DOS)

is still not fixed?

In my case booting from DOS or anything else is not necessary.  The only requirement I have is to override the installer's insistence on mounting a CD and using it as the source for the install.  Once an image or copy is resident on the main drive the CD becomes irrelevant.  How can I tell the installer where to look for the installation info?

With faint hope,

Lee Winter
NP Engineering
Nashua, New Hampshire


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