Re: Installing from a bare 486
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jordan Cooper wrote:
> I had a problem during a cd install on my old 486. I partitioned the
> drive and when debian tried to mount the drive it hung. I rebooted and
> my dos partition is gone. Now I have no system so I can't get the
> machine to recognize the cd drive (that I just installed specifically to
> install debian).
>
> Is there any way to install debian from the cd without msdos on my
> computer?
probably your bios is too old to directly boot from the cd, especially, if
the cd-drive is not atapi-compliant. you can create debian boot disks
using another computer.
> Can debian recognize the cd without dos?
of course (if it is supported at all, but probably it is) - just create
boot disks.
> I have an american
> megatrends motherboard and there's no boot from cd option in the bios
> setup.
>
aha - the answer for the boot-cd? question ... :-)
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