from a cold boot on ur ibm netvista .. press f1 u can also make a boot floppy to access ur lm cd. under windows theres an .exe that will rawwrite a boot floppy for u. enjoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:46 PM Subject: [newbie] linux on a Netvista
> Hi all, > > I have an IBM Netvista 1 gig Athlon with that dumbass bios that IBM's have.. > > It won't boot from the CD-RW (or at least I can't get it to). > > It fails on cdrom.img and other.img telling me to change disks and continue. > > So I am at a loss as to how to get 8.1 installed on this thing. > > > So my Questions are thus: > > 1. How do I specify this thing to boot from the CDROM, I can't find the > entry in Bios. > 2. I saw something in the list recently about what to do with systems that > use shared memory.. but I can't find it, something like: linux > memory=(memory - video memory.) > 3. Has anyone else got this working on a Netvista? > 4. Is there a problem getting 8.1 to boot from the CDRW ?? ie do I need to > add another CDROM to get it to read from it??? > 5. This thing has a USB keyboard, is that likely to cause a problem? > > I have the proper MDK8.1 Powerpack disks that have worked fine on other > PC's... so its not the disks. > > Any tips, help or anything else would be much appreciated. > If I can't get this thing running 8.1, then I have to load win2000 on it, > and I don't want to do that.. > > > rgds > > Frank > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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