Thanks for these answers. I forgot to mention that the machine won't boot from the CD, only a or c drives. I have tried changing this in the bios setup but for some reason it only give those two options.
It will boot from c drive into Linux, apparently with no problem, giving me access to the CD player (using mount/dev and so on). I would like to ask how to then reinstall the entire OS, from the CD, starting from Linux. Is there a simple command that will start the install?
Cheers
Russell
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:00:13 +0000 Russell Ward wrote:
Thanks for these answers. I forgot to mention that the machine won't boot from the CD, only a or c drives. I have tried changing this in the bios setup but for some reason it only give those two options.
How old is your machine? If it's anything less than a Pentium II, it sounds as though your BIOS doesn't support booting from CD-ROM.
It will boot from c drive into Linux, apparently with no problem, giving me access to the CD player (using mount/dev and so on). I would like to ask how to then reinstall the entire OS, from the CD, starting from Linux. Is there a simple command that will start the install?
How did you originally install Linux on that machine in the first place?
I think your only option here would be to generate a floppy boot disk so that you can at least get the installer up and running, and then continue to install from the CD-ROM.
I'm not sure what the procedure is for Mandrake, but the basic principle is to use Rawrite.exe in DOS/Windows to write the boot disk images to floppies. Where the floppy disk images are for Mandrake, I'm afraid I couldn't tell you :(
Regards,
Martyn
Martyn Drake martyn@martyn-drake.com wrote:
I'm not sure what the procedure is for Mandrake, but the basic principle
It's normally something like "dd if=/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync" IIRC. It should be in the install docs.
On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 11:11 am, MJ Ray wrote:
Martyn Drake martyn@martyn-drake.com wrote:
I'm not sure what the procedure is for Mandrake, but the basic principle
It's normally something like "dd if=/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync" IIRC. It should be in the install docs.
Mandrake normally mounts cdroms in /mnt/cdrom therfore the command will be "dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync"
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