Re: Installation

["M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> >On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> >
> >> >Hmm... it might seem silly, but try putting a CDROM in the drive - my
> >> >system took _ages_ until I did this - looking at the logs showed it was
> >> >trying in vain to find a FS on the <empty> CD drive...
> >> >
> >> >Matthew
> >> >
> >> I am booting linux from cd-rom
> >
> >Ah.... In that case, try making a set of boot floppies (rescue and drivers
> >disks, and possibly the base system too) - some vendor's CDs don't boot
> >very well..
> >
> Well, I meant that I boot from cd or from a MSDOS boot disk, then access the
> CD and run boot.bat. In both cases the result is the same.

No - make a linux boot disk - you need the rescue disk, drivers disks and
base system disks - the images for these are on the CDROM, along with
rawrite to write them to floppies,

Matthew

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