RE: boot with no cdrom/floppy

["Christian Precht-Jensen" <christian@precht-jensen.dk>]

>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.
 
now im unsure! from the dos shell i chance to the D: drive which is my win2000 disk on FAT32 patition, do i need to copy the files to the dos patition?

>> 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.

hmm what I meant was. Can rawrite2 write the boot files to the harddisk insted of an floppy?

but i can just make it on an other computer


>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.

oh thats fairly easy, because it is a bat file you can just edit the files, place the images in the root and your on

I realy hate floppyes ((-;


Yours Sincerly
Christian Precht-Jensen
christian@precht-jensen.dk