On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:44:19AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > I was trying to install slackware 8.1 which was bunrned on > a CD-RW but it refused to boot from that CD. >
There may be some problem with the burning .. I am not quite sure, but I feel, it may have something to do with joliet extn for bootable Slackware CDs. Need to check this out ... I suppose you may still be able to use it if there are no other errors. Make a boot and root disk set, from the images best supporting your hardware. Boot from these and install from CD. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Generating random data LOST #263 To generate some random data (e.g. to obtain an unique MD5 checksum when appended to to text file/ script) do: $head -c N /dev/urandom | mimencode > somefile.txt [where N is the no of random bytes needed eg 32, 64, 128 etc] ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
