Pixel wrote:
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> Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > It is ESSENTIAL to use a floppy disk that has been thoroughly checked
> > for NO bad sectors beforehand. You may have to use Windows for this.
>
> ??? use Windows(?) for what ??
>
> what about badblocks?
Yes, badblocks does the j
"Eric J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the mirrored cooker doesn't have to be on its on partition or something
> does it? anyway, when i figure all this stuff out i'll write up a newbies
no it doesn't need to be. I don't understand what is wrong here :(
Ok, so it was a corrupt floppy as someone mentioned before. now the floppy
is good, all the md5sums match (though i didn't do badblocks because i
dont know the parameters to use for checking a floppy, man page wasn't too
helpful there for me). So now when i boot it (either from setting boot
from d
Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is ESSENTIAL to use a floppy disk that has been thoroughly checked
> for NO bad sectors beforehand. You may have to use Windows for this.
??? use Windows(?) for what ??
what about badblocks?
"Eric J. Smith" wrote:
> 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'
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> then after that repeated a bunch it ended with...
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> 'could not find kernel image: linux'
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> any help is appreciated, but please be precise since i know very little.
If you generated the floppy under Linux you can easily verify
"Eric J. Smith" wrote:
> then i shutdown and restart and from lilo choose to boot 'floppy'
No. Set your BIOS to boot first from floppy (A).
Then place the floppy in the drive and reboot.
If there is no floppy in the drive the BIOS will try to boot from the
next in its list - usually C.
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"Eric J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'
your floppy seems to be corrupt
I'm new so this is exactly what i did...
mirrored repeatedly until it said there were no difference rpmfind.net to
my /home/ejs/man-cooker/ directory
then i went into the images folder and did: dd -if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0
then i shutdown and restart and from lilo choose to boot 'floppy'
and i go
