On Tuesday 17 August 2004 04:22 pm, Roy Babin wrote:
How can I create a boot disk? Followed the manual for
Mandrake10. but cannot create one. Any Help appreciated. Thank
Roy
You can use your first CD or you can make a CD. The kernel
and needed files are much to big to fit on a 1.4mb
How can I create a boot disk? Followed the manual for Mandrake10. but
cannot create one. Any Help appreciated. ThankRoy
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:35, Russ wrote:
Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case
something goes haywire?
#mkbootdisk $(uname -r)
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Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case
something goes haywire?
Thanks
Russ
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On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote:
Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case
something goes haywire?
Mandrake Control Center = boot = bootdisk
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Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case
something goes haywire?
Mandrake Control Center = boot = bootdisk
I have
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On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:11 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
I have to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was
lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO.
Anytime I created a boot floppy here it was because the floppy
I tried making a boot disk for mandrake 8.1 with
the program when i tried the floppie it did not work,between the printer not
working and now the boot disk program not working i getting ready to go back to
microshaft windows,any ideas to help with either problem
copu and printer compaq
I have Windows Xp, and want to boot to MandrakeLinux 8.1 using a boot
disk. The boot disk that was made during the installation does not work.
It come up with this message: Could not find ramdisk image:
On Thursday 31 January 2002 06:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have Windows Xp, and want to boot to MandrakeLinux 8.1 using a boot
disk. The boot disk that was made during the installation does not work.
It come up with this message: Could not find ramdisk image: initrid.img.
Now what do I
On Friday 18 January 2002 06:05 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
mkinitrd /boot/[initrd image] [new kernel version]
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk.img 2.4.8-26mdk
Thank, Tom -- Charles already set me straight, but it's appreciated.
Robin M. Weare
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 06:50 pm, Robin M.Weare wrote:
On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:27 am, Charles wrote:
Yes mine did not either. The initrd.img file is missing in /boot.
You need to run mkinitrd (see man mkinitrd or just enter mkinitrd
for help). My command looks looks this:
Brian Parish wrote:
John,
Try becoming root first.
Brian
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:04, John Rigby wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:37, your wisdom was such..:
ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shipahoy wrote:
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one
shipahoy wrote:
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one made on
installation and any I make from Mandrake Control Centre. Trying to boot
with them gives this error on boot:
Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img
The boot disk for my Redhat 7.1 partition
ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shipahoy wrote:
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one made
on
installation and any I make from Mandrake Control Centre. Trying
to boot
with them gives this error on boot:
Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img
On Thursday 17 January 2002 05:27 am, Charles wrote:
Yes mine did not either. The initrd.img file is missing in /boot. You
need to run mkinitrd (see man mkinitrd or just enter mkinitrd for help).
My command looks looks this: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk
2.4.8-26mdk. After the initrd.img
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:37, your wisdom was such..:
ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shipahoy wrote:
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one
made
MY M8.0 doesn't even acknowledge the existence of mkbootdisk !!!
Cheers,
John
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:04:39 +1000
John Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:37, your wisdom was such..:
ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shipahoy wrote:
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one
made
MY M8.0 doesn't even
John,
Try becoming root first.
Brian
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 15:04, John Rigby wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:37, your wisdom was such..:
ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shipahoy wrote:
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one
made
MY M8.0
Hi
My Mandrake 8.1 boot disk doesn't work. This includes the one made on
installation and any I make from Mandrake Control Centre. Trying to boot
with them gives this error on boot:
Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img
The boot disk for my Redhat 7.1 partition works fine.
I have
AMD Duron
Hi everyone,
Windows is not able to boot, I was going to reintall it, so I tested my linux floppy
boot disk (the one created while linux was installed). The disk is booting with LILO
instead of grub and it doesn't complete a succesfull boot.
How can I create a grub boot disk?
Thanks in
In your kmenu boot and init drakfloppy.
-s
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 11:07 am, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
Windows is not able to boot, I was going to reintall it, so I tested my
linux floppy boot disk (the one created while linux was installed). The
disk is booting with LILO instead of grub
To all,
To create a boot disk to install Mandrake7.2:
In windows open the cdrom containing
Mandrake72-inst.iso, go to folder images and
copy cdrom.img into a formatted disk.
Cheers
Al
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 12:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot disk for Corp Server 1.1 that enables DMA?
On Sunday 07 January 2001 17:07, you wrote:
I'm
On Friday 05 January 2001 17:42, you wrote:
Is there an updated boot img for corp server 1.1 that will enable dma
access as the new 7.2 boot img does?
Umm, just add
idex=autotune #where x is the number of the channel
# you want to be optimized
to the "append" blank
Is there an updated boot img for corp server 1.1 that will enable dma access
as the new 7.2 boot img does?
TIA
Steve
ubject: Re: [newbie] Boot disk for Kernel 2.4
On Sunday 24 December 2000 13:49, you wrote:
Hi
I have been unable to get any of the 2.2 kernels to work, they just
hang
on boot-up. I want to try some of the beta 2.4 kernels, but since I cant
get into linux, I cant install them,. Is the
Hi
I have been unable to get any of the 2.2
kernels to work, they just hang on boot-up. I want to try some of the beta 2.4
kernels, but since I cant get into linux, I cant install them,. Is there any way
to make a boot disk with the 2.4 kernel, which will boot into the current
install of
On Sunday 24 December 2000 13:49, you wrote:
Hi
I have been unable to get any of the 2.2 kernels to work, they just hang
on boot-up. I want to try some of the beta 2.4 kernels, but since I cant
get into linux, I cant install them,. Is there any way to make a boot disk
with the 2.4
I know I've seen this here, but I've lost all of the archives of
messaging for the past few days.
How do I create a new bootdisk for a new kernel version? Is there an
easy way from the desktop (KDE), or is there a command manually to do
this?
Thanks.
Harry
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My first installation of 7.1 went well. I selected the Automatic mode
and it had no problem finding my hardware. The only part that did not
execute during installation was the "Create a Boot Disk". After adding
the user, the screen flashed by until it displayed the "Configuring X"
screen.
Barry
Use Drak Conf /DrakBoot to create a boot disk
Charles
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Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: [newbie] Boot Disk
My first installation of 7.1 went well. I selected the
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Barry
Use Drak Conf /DrakBoot to create a boot disk
Charles
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My first in
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My first installation of 7.1 went well. I selected the Automatic mode
and it had no problem finding my hardware. The only part that did not
execute during installation was the "
On Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:00 AM, Andrew Scotchmer
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote:
I created the boot disk during installation and it won't boot.
Can you boot other systems from floppy ie: Windoze?
If not press F2 ( or F1, I can't remember off hand )
HI Andrew:
Windoze boots fine, the Linux will say 'L..I..L..O...then says
Linux.then error 0X10.
my computer is setup to boot from CD, floppy then HD.
edison
From: Andrew Scotchmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] boot disk won't
I created the boot disk during installation and it won't boot.
Message is; error 0X10.
I tried viewing the files inside under Linux and message says 'can't read
the files' but I can read other disks.
thanks for ur help in advance.
edison
If your computer can boot from cd-rom...the cd is bootable, never even had
the floppy in the drive. Check your bios.
Hi all
I have corrupted my distribution boot disk, and need to rebuild same.
While I have been able to make one using rawrite - it seems unable
to test for all hardware on my
Would someone please direct me to online instructions for
using a Mandrake boot disk on Mandrake 7.0? Even better
would be instructions here on how to use one.
I just made a boot disk using
mkbootdisk kernel
where kernel was taken from the output of uname -a.
I rebooted from the floppy, and
Is there any way to have my pc boot into windows 98 by default, and when
I put in a disk, it will boot into linux?
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Subject: [newbie] boot disk
Is there any way to have my pc boot into windows 98 by default, and when
I put in a disk, it will boot into linux?
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"Jeremy Weiss" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to have my pc boot into windows 98 by default, and when
I put in a disk, it will boot into linux?
Sure, but why not have your boot loader do that for you. If your using
Bootmagic, or LILO, you can set
Oh yes, just instead of installing lilo, make a bootdisk
with the lilo on it, and do not install lilo into your master
boot record, tell it to install it in the --- uhh whats that
called the root superblock--- instead of the master
boot record, like for example instead of making the
lilo.conf
Hi all
I have corrupted my distribution boot disk, and need to rebuild same.
While I have been able to make one using rawrite - it seems unable
to test for all hardware on my machine - Soundcard, modem etc
Is at possible that someone knows where I can get a list of the
At 21:54 11 03 2000 -0500, you wrote:
are you using MacMillian Software version 6.5? If so, I have one...
as a matter of fact...there should also be one on your CD...in IMAGES
Yes you are correct - there is an image on the CD - and I've used that to
get the
system running - however - I suspect
once you are running linux...go into LINUXCONF...and re-edit your boot
sequence...to boot directly into linux...AGAIN...
but before doing that...run "soundconf" for your soundcard.
think it's in /usr/bin...but check around...
as for your network card...not sure...never had one to setup
John Rye
I can't seem to get Linux to see my NIC card.. i use a cable modem and need
this... its a 3com etherlink lx... how do i get the driver and how do i put
it in :) ]
A REAL newbie
When I try and make a boot disk with rawwritten I keep getting a (Load
Library 16 failed) error. I have 7.0 on cd and browse to the location of
the cdrom.img and I keep getting that error. So I then went into changed
bios to install directly from the cd. Everything starts fine, until it asks
IfI recall, you run MAKEDISK and tell it you want the
boot.img file, not the cdrom.img ..
I loaned my linux book out, but you will find it
Alan
** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] boot disk and cd help
** Original Sender: Cory Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** Original Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 17:51
Op za, 05 feb 2000, schreef u:
When I try and make a boot disk with rawwritten I keep getting a (Load
Library 16 failed) error. I have 7.0 on cd and browse to the location of
the cdrom.img and I keep getting that error. So I then went into changed
bios to install directly from the cd.
I downloaded the ISO image and had the same problem with rawwritten.
If you notice, the dosutils directory also has the older rawrite.exe available.
Use this to make a boot disk. It worked for me.
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, you wrote:
To fix the cd boot problem, download the iso image (from an
Find another pc and create a win98 boot disk and copy a copy files onto it
also, you probably already know this but I'll state it for those who may not
know. Create a boot disk for the appropriate OS, copy some additional files
such as edit.com, qbasic.exe, fdisk.exe, format.exe, and so forth,
Happy New Year Greetings Axalon:
Just sent this to a member of my local linux users group. Been working
many hours trying to do this!
Hi alan:
Thanks for your private reply.
I tried what you suggested and RedHat still loads Gnome (which is
beginning to grow on me).
This is the sequence that I
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I am running Mandrake RH 6.1 and am unable to get a rescue disk working.
Documentation says the image is on the CD - but it isn't. Anyone have any
ideas? mkbootdisk creates a bootable floppy but no valid rescue.
The "rescue" disk that ships with Mandrake is
Sam Silverman wrote:
I am running Mandrake RH 6.1 and am unable to get a rescue disk working.
Documentation says the image is on the CD - but it isn't. Anyone have any
ideas? mkbootdisk creates a bootable floppy but no valid rescue.
Regards,
Sam Silverman
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, chris wakefield wrote:
Happy New Year Greetings Axalon:
Just sent this to a member of my local linux users group. Been working
many hours trying to do this!
Hi alan:
Thanks for your private reply.
I tried what you suggested and RedHat still loads Gnome (which is
Thank you for not using HTML. It is appreciated, but, when someone
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First tip: turn off HTML in your mail client when posting to this list.
Plenty of us use mail clients that don't handle HTML too well, and tend to
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How are you booting into the installation? Off the CD, or do you use a
boot floppy? Also, it
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About the guy who flamed getting flamed re: being TOLD to turn off HTML...I
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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote:
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Hi everyone,
this is the first time I get on list. I have
tried to install Mandrake 6.0 on my Pentium, 2Gb, computer without success. Two
main problems occcur me:
first - when the installation process gets to the
rescue disk step it doesn't seem to find a diskette driver (the light
i'm tryin gto install linux for teh first time and i have the image-ISO
file stored on a CD-R that i burned. i tried to download the boot.img
file to stick on a floppy disk, but the image file is 1.4MB and every
disk that i have formatted and tried comes to 1.38MB--there is some
whacked file that
, August 03, 1999 1:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] boot disk
i'm tryin gto install linux for teh first time and i have the image-ISO
file stored on a CD-R that i burned. i tried to download the boot.img
file to stick on a floppy disk, but the image file is 1.4MB and every
disk that i
: [newbie] boot disk
i'm tryin gto install linux for teh first time and i have the image-ISO
file stored on a CD-R that i burned. i tried to download the boot.img
file to stick on a floppy disk, but the image file is 1.4MB and every
disk that i have formatted and tried comes to 1.38MB
i'm tryin gto install linux for teh first time and i have the image-ISO
file stored on a CD-R that i burned. i tried to download the boot.img
file to stick on a floppy disk, but the image file is 1.4MB and every
disk that i have formatted and tried comes to 1.38MB--there is some
whacked file
Hi,
first time I've strayed from MS and I'm stuck.
Six attempts to install 6.0 and they all hang at the mouseconfig screen.
Apparently I have installed it but not configured it. Unfortunately I didn't get to
the creation of the bootdisk so my question is how to do this from DOS in
the
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, you wrote:
Hi,
first time I've strayed from MS and I'm stuck.
Six attempts to install 6.0 and they all hang at the mouseconfig screen.
Apparently I have installed it but not configured it. Unfortunately I didn't get to
the creation of the bootdisk so my question
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Hi,
first time I've strayed from MS and I'm stuck.
Six attempts to install 6.0 and they all hang at the mouseconfig screen.
Apparently I have installed it but not configu
I recently ordered a Mandrake 5.3 disk from LinuxMall. Will I be able to use
a boot disk that came with RH 5.2 to start the installation process, or will I
need to create a Mandrake specific boot disk to get going???
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Mike
Used the Red Hat 5.2 boot disk I had on my Mandrake 5.3 install with no
problems.
Jeanette
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