Re: Debian installation from hard disk
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:39:16AM +0530, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote:
> > Please quote as if you're in a conversation.
> > http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html
>
> ok .. i tried doing that only but i guess i missed out on a line or two here
> and there but i've been in front of the monitor for 8 straight hours now ...
No problem. It's been kinda rampant lately, so I've been forgetting
who I've already mentioned it to.
> i don't think u've understood my problem exactly. i am trying to load debian
> from the harddisk of a computer which only has windows NT (i have one FAT16
> partition though on which the installation files have been dumped ... as the
> debian installation manual says). googling helped me in that if i had a
> win9x box..i would have been able to install linux but i want to do this in
> NT ... and all solutions loadlin etc. require real mode DOS.
Ah, OK. I think this is where I suffered burnout myself. If you
mentioned it before, it just didn't click. You may be SOL in this
case, however, I did find Linux+WindowsNT HOWTO on TLDP. Have you
seen it yet?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+WinNT.html
> please don't get me wrong but i'm now plain frustrated with this. i don't
> understand why loadlin or a similar program can't run under NT. or why XOSL
> or some other boot loader can't be installed from NT.
NT bootloader is hella-weird. NT, unlike other Microsoft OSes, also
pretends to have something approaching memory management, so that
rules out Loadlin, which basically stomps over the memory occupied by
Windows to work, as I understand it, which is why when you run it from
anywhere but a genuine DOS prompt Windows complains about not being
shut down right.
- --
.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
`. `'`
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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