OK I understand. I installed it on a floppy disk and it works great. Thanks for all your help!
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 02:06 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I went to the site. It looks ideal for what I'm attempting. I can't > > seem to get it to work. I downloaded the main file, the support file, > > and the docs archive onto my wife's PC and installed it as per the > > instructions in the docs. I went out to the DOS prompt and typed: > > > > sbmist -t us -d 128 > > > > and it asked me a few questions, which I answered. Then it said > > "Installation Successful", but when I rebooted the PC it gave me the > > message: "SMBK Bad!" Is there another way? > > > > I thought you wanted to install it to a floppy. Wouldn't the command > then be > > sbmist -t us -d 0 > > ? > > -d drv set the drive that you want to install Boot Manager; > for Linux: > /dev/fd0 is the first floppy drive > /dev/hda is the first hard drive > for DOS: > 0 is the first floppy drive > 128 is the first hard drive; > > > Heaven only knows where it installed to on the first HDD. Is the HDD > even formatted? > > Holly > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
