Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:45:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoyt hoyt 6355292 Sep 19 20:16 btmgr-web.tar.gz Thats what I got where am I going wrong. Looks like you *did* download the whole site...gzipped. What's inside? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 /

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 08:35, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:45:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoyt hoyt 6355292 Sep 19 20:16 btmgr-web.tar.gz Thats what I got where am I going wrong. Looks like you *did* download the whole site...gzipped.

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: 156 files @ 7.1 MB.  Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 in rpm, src.rpm, tar.gz. So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) Iirc there's a way of just writing/coppying btmgr to mbr i.e. that's actually all

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 09:39, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: 156 files @ 7.1 MB.  Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 in rpm, src.rpm, tar.gz. So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) Iirc there's a way of

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 11:32, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) -- Good luck, HarM I had no intention of letting it go to waste, but there

[newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit 'Ok', it tells me to insert the 'Additional Drivers

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:00, JoeHill wrote: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:00, JoeHill wrote: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 September 2004 21:49, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 Well, it's pretty old, but it's from another box which I had installed MDK on before, though that was 9.2 (IIRC). This machine, however, does not allow for booting from the CD :-(. One thing I should have

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:49, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img,

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:18:05 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? have you tried making a boot disk from the /images/alternatives directory, rather than the cdrom.img? Yep, I was just about to post a [solved],

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:09:27 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Joe, Did you ever try a floppy with smartbootmanager? It comes on the slackware install CD's and works on the most improbable of boot devices. I've had some good experiences with it. If I'm understanding you

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:40, JoeHill wrote: Joe, Did you ever try a floppy with smartbootmanager? It comes on the slackware install CD's and works on the most improbable of boot devices. I've had some good experiences with it. If I'm understanding you correctly, I don't know if

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:49, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 16:21, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:40, JoeHill wrote: snip get it here: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net it's not much more than 50k dload. snip I show 6.1 M -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:55:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? The additional drivers floppy is a FD that contains drivers for hardware that is not on the dist it was pretty common in RH-7 days likely

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 19 September 2004 06:27 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:55:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? The additional drivers floppy is a FD that contains drivers for hardware that