Re: [newbie] drakfloppy bug?
On Thursday April 3 2003 03:33 pm, cF wrote: No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. More likely nobody had a similar experience, and/or had the problem ;) Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF Update: I've successfully made a boot disk using 'mkbootdisk', but DrakFloppy still has that problem. 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' always worked for me till very late in 9.1 development, and now with early 9.2 mkbootdisk fails with 'not enough room on the floppy', but the GUI tool in mcc never fails. Go figure? 'Bout the only time I use this old floppy drive anyhow ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] drakfloppy bug?
Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF
[newbie] drakfloppy bug?
No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF Update: I've successfully made a boot disk using 'mkbootdisk', but DrakFloppy still has that problem.
Re: [newbie] drakfloppy bug?
I have posted in the cooker list the same problem this afternoon, but until now there is not answer. Don't know if a new drakxtools has been released. Regards El Jueves, 3 de Abril de 2003 23:33, cF escribió: No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32 version). After rebooting i tried to access linux from it, and i found out i had to have a boot floppy. So off to mandrake i go, i open the MCC and click on boot, then the drakfloppy icon. I leave everything default (there was no other choice anyways) and i hit the create button. Everything goes smoothly, and within a minute i get my linux bootdisk. So back to XP i go. I reopen VmWare, put the floppy in, and wait. This is the message i got: SYSLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin Cold not find kernel image: linux boot: _ I've tried formatting the floppy (twice) and making another boot disk (twice) and i still got the same message defiantly staring at me. Is this a bug in drakfloppy or am i doing something wrong, again? -cF Update: I've successfully made a boot disk using 'mkbootdisk', but DrakFloppy still has that problem. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Murcia, España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
