Re: [newbie] boot problems

[F. E. Schaper]

AHA!   After preparing myself to treat my office as if I were Johnny Depp in a hotel room I realized all I needed to do was make a Windows 98 boot floppy...load the cd-rom driver and boot Linux manually from there....   In the middle of the install now.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Greer To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 9:52 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] boot problems Well, I'm not sure why that's happening, but if your cdrom is working in DOS, you can always boot to dos, go to the cdrom drive (Ex, drive d:) and cd \dosutils\autoboot and run autoboot.bat       -=Ron=- -----Original Message----- From: F. E. Schaper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] boot problems Hey Guys,   I'm getting a strange error here. I originally setup my box to run Windows 98 and a Linux partition...the problem is that I didn't like the loopback it was way to slow for the setup I needed. So, I reformatted the hard drive (it's now a DOS drive) and attempted to reload Linux using a boot floppy (which I got with the software) and the cd....I checked the BIOS and have it set to boot A,C in sequence....of course now I can't get Linux to boot up...it won't recognize the boot disk and I am stuck with DOS!! (Which I am pretty sure won't work too well as a web server :-))   Any ideas?   Thanks,   Fritz