Marcia Waller wrote:
>
> Dear All, Thank you everyone who gave me wonderful advice. Unfortunately
> I found out that my CD rom is not bootable. In the Bios setup it shows
> that it is an option but a technician told me it is not anyway. My Bios
> setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and
> how do I do that?
On the start-up press 'del' key.
A screen look-up and point to that line
where you can chose
your start-up disk. Then press an
arrow-key to change to A,C, etc...
I am a true newbie and have not done
much on the Setup
> screen. Also, may I install by graphical installation or text
> installation through MS-DOS? I have made the floppy for graphical with
For the text install copy with rawwrite
(in dos) the text_install.image
to a floppy. Now you can install with
the floppy in text mode.
Hummm the txt_install.img is found on
your CD /dosutils I think.
> rawrite but how do I do it for text installation? I have already done
> the partitions with Partition magic and I have Bootmagic installed.
> Those applications seem to be OK but I cannot get the Linux boot disk or
> Linux Installation CD to boot the installation screen so that I may
> install Linux. In other words I have bootmagic and partitionmagic on and
> the next step was to boot up so that I may install Linux through the CD
> next. Linux is not installed yet. May I install Linux another way such
> as text installation through DOS without uninstalling bootmagic or
> partition magic? I appreciate your help with this. I have contacted
Yes, boot.... etc. is NOT necessary.
Withe the text install you can go from
FDISK to DISKDRUID.
FDISK is to set the partitions and
DISKDRUID to set the mount-points.
> Linux-Mandrake support days ago several times but I have received no
> answer. I have looking through everything that I can find in
> documentation and other Linux sources but have not found the answer yet.
> I appreciate anyone's input. I do have a Pentium 200 MHZ with 2 IDE hard
> drives one with 2.5 gigs and the other with over 8 gigs. I have 96 megs
> of memory and everything else should be compatible from my research. As
> a reminder my hard drive is already partitioned through partition magic
> and Linux is not installed yet. Thank you very much for your
> help.Sincerely, Marcia
