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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:54:01 GMT

staale wrote:
> rodg wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for the input so far. My solution will be to get some
>> more
>> ram out of another non-functioning box.
>>
>> I am now running into another problem. There seems to be no way in
>> the bios
>> to tell this box to boot from CD. It does have DOS installed and working,
>> but I am not a dos person by any means. How can I make it fire up the
>> iso
>> image on the cd? I can see it is there, just can't figure out how to
>> make
>> it execute? I tried looking for an updated bios, but no luck so far on
>> that.
>> Hopefully someone out there knows the dos command to ececute that
>> image...
>>
>> Thanks again. It's a fun experiment to see if I can get this old
>> dinosauer
>> doing something worthwhile rather than ending up in a landfill.
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>> "Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez" <jkerouac@bgsec.com> wrote in message
>> news:mUmYc.111503$r4.2946160@news-reader.eresmas.com...
>>
>>> rodg wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am looking for an iso of a minimal linux distro for a 386:
>>>>
>>>> with 8mb ram, 430 mb hd, pentium 75mhz currently has windoz3.1/dos.
>>>>
>>>> please reply to newsgroup & comprecyclerftc@yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you are talking about a LiveCD you can find some in the Knoppix
>>> home site, all variants from the Knoppix distribution. Also there is
>>> a Gnome LiveCD lite I think.
>>>
>>> If you are talking about a distribution to install, Debian would be
>>> the more obvious advice, but someone told in some newsgroup that the
>>> installer needed 16Mb to run, so he said the best solution would be
>>> a Slackware.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
>>> Director Tecnico de bgSEC
>>> jkerouac@bgsec.com
>>> bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
>>> http://www.bgsec.com
>>> ESPAŅA
>>>
>>> The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
>>> mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
>>> the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
>>> like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
>>> -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
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> This is the tool you nead http://btmgr.webframe.org/
>
> Best regards
> Staale
>
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