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Re: boot with no cdrom/floppy



On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:12:11PM +0100, Christian Precht-Jensen wrote:
> 
> > > I just bought an IBM Thinkpad X20, nice mashine, but no floppy or cdrom!
> > > 
> > 
> > if you could borrow one or the other for a day, it would make your life a lot
> > easier.
> > Has to be someone near you with one.
> 
> Yes it would, but I live in the northen Europe and I acely know someone who have an usb cdrom, but he live about 500k away!
> 
> And for Serge Ray: 
> I hat to look up truncated (okay im danish) 

sorry bout that. by truncated i meant that windows/dos shortens a "long"
file name. this means that if the linux installer is looking for the
file by its long name, then it won't find it.
> 
> well is there an way to make rawrite2 write to the harddisk or schould i just make an new image?

it isn't a problem with the image, just the name of the image as a file.

after the files are copied to the dos partition, you need to modify
their names somehow so that the names are as the installer expects. this
did happen to me a few years ago, and i'm afraid i forgot the trick to
renaming them under windows/dos to respect the filename, but it is
possible.

-- 
Serge Rey	http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-- Betrand Russell

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