ux to make a replacement bootdisk when you lose it.
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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: [newbie] Boot disks only
I don't know if I'm in the right forum for this
I'm trying to install a variety of Linux systems
I don't know if I'm in the right forum for this
I'm trying to install a variety of Linux systems onto a 30 GB HD which
is in Primary
Slave position.
I may be wrong on this but there seems to be no option to NOT install a
booter
during a Linux installation. Each Linux installs its own
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
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From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:53 PM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Boot disks only
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
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I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum Linux".
I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of
the easiest installs I have done.
I want to load it on an old machine at home that I use for Linux and
testing. It does not have a bootable
:36 AM
Subject: [newbie] Boot disks?
I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum
Linux".
I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of
the easiest installs I have done.
I want to load it on an old machine at home that I use
Davidread the readme file in the images directory on your
cd.
Alan
meijin wrote:
I recently got a copy of Mandrake with the latest issue of "Maximum Linux".
I installed it on a test machine and was pretty impressed as it was one of
the easiest installs I have done.
I want to load
There are actually a bunch of mini-distributions that can be used for
rescue/boot purposes...there are some that even run X!
look for tomsrtbt and go to hteir webpage...they have links to other
mini-distributions on one/two/several floppies
(example : tomsrtbt, loaf, lrp, mulinux, cclinux,
John Aldrich wrote:
Sure... its' called "rescue.img." :-) Download it from your favorite FTP
site (i.e. one of the RedHat or other distro mirror sites) or get it off
your CD if you have one and load it onto a disk with rawrite and use it in
conjunction with the disk made from the "boot.img"
Jeremy Mann wrote:
At 06:51 PM 6/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
I'm thinking more on the lines of a self-contained mini
kernel and a very small editor...
Found it sooner than I thought ;)
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/05/20/927180998.html
CCLinux. Just what you were looking for!
