RE: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I wanted to clarify regarding what I said below, > Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, > I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be > extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). I PERSONALLY missed the note a

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread John_J_Neff
ser Mailing List , Debian Laptop Mailing List cc:(bcc: John J Neff/Colad Group) Subject: Fixing the Master Boot Record Hi everybody, In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios first. So, for t

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Ernest Johanson
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in > the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error > message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). Thanks, Bryan ***

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1999-11-01 Thread Rev GRC Sperry
ftware and boot up. -Grant - Forwarded message from "Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 09:36:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User Mailing List , Debian Laptop Mailing List Subject: Fixing t

Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. T