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



Lee Winter, le Sun 30 Aug 2009 10:35:46 -0400, a écrit :
> 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.

Maybe not necessary, but should work.

> 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.

Are you using the hd-media image?

Samuel


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