[newbie] Boot floppy

2004-08-18 Thread Roy Babin
How can I create a boot floppy? I tried what the Mandrake 10. user guide said but it did not work. Can anyone give me some advise? Thank you..Roy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Boot floppy

2004-08-18 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 20:07, Roy Babin wrote: How can I create a boot floppy? I tried what the Mandrake 10. user guide said but it did not work. Can anyone give me some advise? Thank you..Roy Hi Roy; The vmlinuz file, which is one file needed for a boot floopy, is 1,441,446 on my

Re: [newbie] Boot floppy

2004-08-18 Thread Roy Babin
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 18 August 2004 20:07, Roy Babin wrote: How can I create a boot floppy? I tried what the Mandrake 10. user guide said but it did not work. Can anyone give me some advise? Thank you..Roy Hi Roy; The vmlinuz file, which is one file needed for a boot floopy,

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:34 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This program will make a boot disk that can let old machines boot any bootable cd (worked for me on old pentium): http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe Doesn't help much if the 10.0 kernel is too big to fit on a

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:00:34 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This program will make a boot disk that can let old machines boot any bootable cd (worked for me on old pentium): http://ebcd.pcministry.com/download/oldbios.exe Doesn't help much if the 10.0 kernel is too big

[newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread Peter
Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 06:32 pm, Peter wrote: Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Yes, Peter, you can. Check the CD, on the image folder, I

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread Margot
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 06:32 pm, Peter wrote: Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Yes, Peter, you can. Check the CD, on the

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread evolt
Margot wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 06:32 pm, Peter wrote: Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Yes, Peter, you can. Check

RE: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-11 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
It is fine as it installed perfectly on my Desktop, which has a 4-5 yr old cdrw. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Joan Tur [mailto:jtur;wanadoo.es] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

[newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least boot from it), so I'd like to find out if a boot floppy would help to get it to boot from the cd. How do I make one of these in this scenario?

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 October 2002 10:51 am, Paul Rodriguez did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least

RE: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Franki
did u burn it properly?? it may be that your CD containes one 700mb iso file instead of its contents... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rodriguez Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 1:51 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] Boot Floppy

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread JM5379
: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least boot from it), so I'd like to find out if a boot floppy would help to get it to boot from the cd. How do I make

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 10 Octubre 2002 19:51, en Paul Rodriguez va escriure: Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS, and would like to install Mandrake 9.0. It does not seem to recognize the 700Mb ISO cd (or at least boot from it), so I'd like to find

RE: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
In my case doing so still asks for disc 1 then it still cant find what it needs. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS -Original Message- From: Joan Tur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Joan Tur
-Original Message- From: Joan Tur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's Es Dijous 10 Octubre 2002 19:51, en Paul Rodriguez va escriure: Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy for 700Mb ISO's

2002-10-10 Thread Derek Jennings
There are instructions for making a boot floppy in an HTML file on CD1 If you cannot see any files on CD1, then you have not burned it correctly. It has to be burned as an 'iso image' derek On Thursday 10 Oct 2002 6:51 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I just built a brand new machine, no OS,

[newbie] Boot floppy --Invalid Compressed format

2002-10-02 Thread steve litz
Iam trying to build the 2.4.19 kernel, The compile goes just fine with know errors but when I run make bzdisk the boot floppy it creates does not work when the machine boots and tries to read the files on the floppy I get this error: Invalid Compressed Format (err=1) System Halted I have

Re: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img

2001-11-14 Thread Anke Max
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 7:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Boot floppy: no initrd.img Hi, First and foremost, I would like to apologise for the lengthy mail, but I am sure those that are willing to help me will find the info. important. Please note

Re: [newbie] Boot floppy file requre

2000-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Abdallah Al-Rashdy wrote: Hay Im new user too i need a help I need boot floppy for Mandrake 7.1 Can somebody send me file called ( rawwrite.exe ) [snip] Abdallahit's on your installation CD in the dosutils directory. Alan

Re: [newbie] Boot floppy file requre

2000-08-06 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/cooker/dosutils/ Abdallah Al-Rashdy wrote: Hay Im new user too i need a help I need boot floppy for Mandrake 7.1 Can somebody send me file called ( rawwrite.exe ) My Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: semtets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Boot floppy file requre

2000-08-03 Thread Abdallah Al-Rashdy
Hay Im new user too i need a help I need boot floppy for Mandrake 7.1 Can somebody send me file called ( rawwrite.exe ) My Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: semtets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problems with configuration Date: Wed, 26 Jul

[newbie] boot floppy w/ forced cdrom

1999-01-04 Thread Karen M. Heiby
Hi all, I'm happy to say I was finally able to append = "hdc=cdrom" to my lilo.conf and my CD-ROM drive is detected more often than not. 1.) I wondered if someone could tell me how to do the equivalent when using a boot disk, just in case I need to use one someday. It'd be great to boot with a