except generally a dos prompt won't work, you have to reboot into dos mode.
It's a memory addressing problem as far as I can tell. As a result, you can't
do this from NT :-(
Don
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, you
wrote: > when the floppy is formatted..it won't be bootable unless you do a
full > format.. a quick format won't be bootable. are you doing "rawrite" from
a > dos > promt ? if not cd to the drive that is the cdrom then cd to \dosutils
> ...enter
> ccommand "rawrite.exe" ...it will ask where the image file is...on redhat
> it's
> \images\boot.img (i don't know about Mandrake" then it will ask where to
> copy... just type "a:"
>
> I had just asked a similiar question and this was the answer that worked for
> me. Thanks to the person who enlightened me so that I am able to help you!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Colin Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 3:47 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Boot disk creation
>
>
> > Hi,
> > first time I've strayed from MS and I'm stuck.
> > Six attempts to install 6.0 and they all hang at the mouseconfig screen.
> > Apparently I have installed it but not configured it. Unfortunately I
> didn't get to
> > the creation of the bootdisk so my question is how to do this from DOS in
> > the hopes that I can then boot to Linux and try to configure it from
> there.
> > Thanks,
> > Colin.
> > Colin Reynolds
> > Fort McMurray
> > Alberta
> > Canada
