Fritz
This is an off the wall suggestion but if you have a Windows sart-up disk
try booting from it. It will load a driver for your CD-Rom, and then see if
it will let you run your Linux install.
----- Original Message -----
From: "F. E. Schaper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] boot problems
Ron,
Thanks for the idea...tried that and the CD-Rom drive is not
recognized...what really is getting me pissed about this whole thing is that
the boot floppy is not being recognized...I've even tried to use my other
box to burn off another one and it does not work either...I either get a
"Library 2" error or a can not load library 16 error....
So, I guess the best thing to do at this point is to try to create a boot
disk that has a cd rom driver on it so I can boot up dos with the cd and run
the install from there. Anyone know where I can get such a utility?
If that does not work I'll chant f*ck Linux as I throw the box out the
window and revert to my previous NT ways...
Thanx
----- 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
