Re: No HD for DSL


"Baldeagle" <Baldeagle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a AT&T Globalist cerca 1995 with a 1gig hard drive, about 120mb ram
and Phoenix bios of the same era on a 100mhz, yes 100mhz, pentium cpu. It
is still running Windows 95. I want to load it with Damn Small Linux, the
os that seems to make most sense for such old iron. Guess what. I looked
at the bios and the choices I have for booting are; A then C, C then A, or
just C. Of course I want help as to what to do to get it to boot "D", or
the CD first. Can anyone tell me where to start. I've been using Linux on
my other machine for a good five years now and will not go back to $soft.

A machine that old won't boot from anything but a floppy drive or a hard
drive.

There should be a bootable floppy available to start a network installation
of your distro of choice. This assumes that you have a reasonably fast
internet connection.

You might also find a floppy that you can boot and begin a CD installation.


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