On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:49, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 > PM disseminated the following: > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts > > > on, > > > and it won't boot from the CD. > > > > > > I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the > > > install > > > I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit 'Ok', it tells me to insert > > > the > > > 'Additional Drivers floppy'. > > > > > > I can see nothing in the INSTALL or README about this, except for network > > > drivers to do a net install, and no images that fit this description in the > > > /Images dir on the CD. > > > > > > Help? > > > > How Old? Is there any possibility that its a non-ATAPI CD in the box > > (old Dolphin, etc)? > > Well, it's pretty old, but it's from another box which I had installed MDK on > before, though that was 9.2 (IIRC). This machine, however, does not allow for > booting from the CD :-(. One thing I should have mentioned, if I boot from a > Win98 floppy (one of the few useful things to come out of MS), it detects the > CDROM and I can read from the drive. Unfortunately, this does me no good as the > MDK CD doesn't appear to have any 'setup' or 'install' scripts I can run to get > things going. > > Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it?
have you tried making a boot disk from the /images/alternatives directory, rather than the cdrom.img? -- pm ---- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
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