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| Thread ID: 42110 | 2004-02-01 06:12:00 | no c drive on boot up | wurzul (5193) | Press F1 |
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| 212057 | 2004-02-01 06:12:00 | Hi I don't really know where to put this as that depends on what kind of an answer I get. I am playing around with an old pc direct computer (560si) 133 pentium. The vague idea was to experiment with running it on linux and maybe turn into a server. I know it would be better to go and buy one but that takes all the fun out of it. The machine had no cd so I found an old one bolted it in and was rewarded by the machine recognising it and it working. However when I inserted my copy of red hat 9 for dummies and rebooted nothing happened, a bit of digging around revealed the bios could not be set to boot from the c drive the option to do so simply wasn't there. I have spent a few hours on the net but the age of the machine has made it all most impossible to find any info. What I would like to know is there any other way of forcing it to boot into the cd on startup? I await a guru's response. |
wurzul (5193) | ||
| 212058 | 2004-02-01 06:54:00 | I'm assuming you have another machine you can use to read from the CD? I believe that most Linux CDs have a floppy disk image you can install direct onto a floppy disk so that you can boot from the floppy to begin install, which will automatically refer to the CD drive when required. Have a look on your Linux install CD from Windows Explorer or somewhere. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 212059 | 2004-02-01 08:22:00 | Hi Mike That sounds like it may work. I do have a boot disk for linux as I have a dual boot machine so I'll give that a try. Cheers |
wurzul (5193) | ||
| 212060 | 2004-02-01 09:32:00 | YOu need to insert the first RH9 CD in while running Windows and change into d:\dosutils\rawritewin and run rawritewin to build an install boot disk. This is different to a dual boot floppy disk. Once this is made, boot to the floppy and the install should start from the CD. |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 212061 | 2004-02-01 09:35:00 | I guess you are aware that a P133 should be fine for playing with server software but you really need 128Mbytes of RAM for the fully featured GUIs (GNOME and KDE) with RH9. An older version of RH will get away with less. | JohnD (509) | ||
| 212062 | 2004-02-01 10:35:00 | Hi all Thanks JohnD for the info regarding rawritewin It is loading as we speak. I tried the boot disk but it failed. I only have 64 Mb of ram so that will have to do (all 4 slots filled). I intend splashing out on a better system if all goes well. Once again thanks. Wurzul |
wurzul (5193) | ||
| 212063 | 2004-02-02 02:42:00 | The floppies used to boot have to be perfect. Most recent RedHat install CDs have had a batch file on the CD which will start the installation. Have a look in the RedHat/DOSUTILS/ (I think). | Graham L (2) | ||
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