On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22, Glenn Williams wrote:
[snip]
> From: "Dave Anselmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[snip]
I dont' have floppies, period, on any of my systems. (well ok, one ls120
external)
this leaves me exposed to boot problems.
the answer is, boot from *any* cd-bootable linux distro and type
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From: "Dave Anselmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Copying boot disk
[whole lotta snippin']
> I'm not sure what you mean by a boot floppy. If you mean a flopp
Greetings,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2002 19:16 pm, Glenn Williams wrote:
> > Four or 5 months ago, I tried to make a copy of the LILO boot floppy
> > that was created when I installed SuSE Linux 7.2 I discovered it was
> > impossible to do so. I later r
Glenn Williams wrote:
[...]
> I was lucky - several nights ago, we had a 1 hour power outage,
> complete with surges and sags. Both my Linux/Windows XP machines were
> running. When the dust settled, I could not boot into this Linux
> automatically using the LILO on the hard drive. I whipped
On Friday 11 January 2002 19:16 pm, Glenn Williams wrote:
> Four or 5 months ago, I tried to make a copy of the LILO boot floppy
> that was created when I installed SuSE Linux 7.2 I discovered it was
> impossible to do so. I later read that the reason it can't be copied
> has to do with the uniq
Hello, Lee:
I don't wish to belabor this point. Evidently I was misunderstood, or
perhaps there were errors in what I wrote.
Four or 5 months ago, I tried to make a copy of the LILO boot floppy
that was created when I installed SuSE Linux 7.2 I discovered it was
impossible to do so. I late
On Friday 11 January 2002 13:04 pm, Lee wrote:
> >
> > Did you try the method I suggested for copying your original boot floppy?
> >
> > using 'dd' ??
>
> Yeah, only it didn't work. Kept getting either no such device or no such
> file (even in root). I think it may have something to do with SuSe
Previously, you (Bruce Marshall) wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2002 16:42 pm, Lee wrote:
> > Thanks for the help. Used Yast2 as Glenn suggested, but that makes an
> > install disk. To boot into the installed system from it you have to boot
> > into install at lightoff. Leave the cd out of the tray
On Friday 11 January 2002 16:42 pm, Lee wrote:
> Thanks for the help. Used Yast2 as Glenn suggested, but that makes an
> install disk. To boot into the installed system from it you have to boot
> into install at lightoff. Leave the cd out of the tray answer the
> install questions until you get to
not know.
>
> try [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
> Behalf Of Glenn Williams
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Copying Boot disk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Glenn Williams
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Copying Boot disk.
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From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Copying Boot disk.
> Recently built a quad boot (Win98/Mandrake 8.0/W3.1b/SuSe 7.2) box. To
> keep down traffic congestion in
On Thursday 10 January 2002 14:08 pm, Lee wrote:
> Recently built a quad boot (Win98/Mandrake 8.0/W3.1b/SuSe 7.2) box. To
> keep down traffic congestion in the mbr I boot into the SuSe using a
> floppy boot disk. For safety's sake I want to make a few duplicate boot
> disks. No matter how I try to
Recently built a quad boot (Win98/Mandrake 8.0/W3.1b/SuSe 7.2) box. To
keep down traffic congestion in the mbr I boot into the SuSe using a
floppy boot disk. For safety's sake I want to make a few duplicate boot
disks. No matter how I try to go about it I get an error message that
says the floppy
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