Re: Another newbie hits a roadblock
- From: Aljosha Filippov <princimrahil@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:19:41 +0100
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 18:22 -0500, @(none)rob\ wrote:
> slackware 4.0 would be the best bet
> it will install a veary useful system in 200megs
> BUT you will need to boot from floppys to install it
> and have the distro on something cd,hard drive or even floppys
> the main system can be installed from 20 floppys and the rest can be
> downloaded and installed but you will have a hard time finding a graphic
> web browser for it and will have to use lynx for the down loads
> Randy Day wrote:
> > I've got an older pentium machine with a clean 200meg
> > (not gig) hard drive and no CD-ROM. I want to install
> > some version of Linux on the drive, but I've run into
> > some problems.
> >
> > I chose Debian (pretty much at random), and d/l'd the
> > rescue.bin, root.bin, driver*.bin files and rawrite.exe.
> >
> > Then I discovered that I can't actually write to a
> > floppy properly. rawrite returns a disk error.
> >
> > What I *can* do is boot the machine under Windows,
> > install Linux (somehow) on the clean drive, then remove
> > the Windows drive; I don't want a dual-boot system here.
> >
> > I've done some reading on debian.org and other places,
> > but can't seem to find the right piece of the puzzle.
> > Everyone seems to assume a floppy boot or a CD-ROM.
> > How can I make the HD a bootable one straight off?
> >
> > Any pointers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Randy
Hello Randy,
Are you sure that you removed the write lock from your floppy?
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