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, bu

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 http

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 w

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 a

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...gzi

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 / www.freeyourm

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 har

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 l

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 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

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

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 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 [sol

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 flo

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 m

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

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 wh

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

[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