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From: | Harold Tuchel |
Subject: | [RULE] Red Hat 8 Publishers edition...boot >>NOT |
Date: | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:44:46 -0500 |
Pionex 486 80 meg hardrive Boot device c or a: cdrom not allowed toboot..I Installed it after system purchase Objective dual boot linux 8.0 and win 3.11 -- This is all to complicated....got a publishers CD R/H version 8.0 two cdset....Of course the CD drive is non-boot...so I went about making a boot disk from Ver 8.0 boot.img from redhat. That crashed...it hangs Using slinky or miniconda I have been able to partition the disk to ha1,ha2,ha3. Slinky makes it thru to the hardware probes and recognizes the three partitions and fd0, and hde which I am assuming is cdrom drive e. I cannot however access drive e and also do not have such options to choose from in slinky. Have tried at boot:linux hde=cdrom to no avail BTW one version of R/H boot ver 6.2 I think attempts to access drive e just fine but cannot find the right directory I suspect to start loading of the RPMS. Sams teach yourself linux 8.0 seems to assume R/H 8.0 is going to boot up your system off the cdrom and load. (it will on my IBM AMD 400, but I don't want to do that at this time). I'm starting to feel like an idiot even though I do DOS a bit and work on CNC machining electronics.. BTW I have used several different versions of slinky and miniconda to no avail. The drive is to small to download Iso's I think...and I probably wouldn't know what to do with them when I got them. Am I over-reaching to try to revive this Pionex 486 with 3rd party cdrom and no cdrom boot bios??? Will it be worth the aggravation?? P.S. without being insulting or wanting to start a flame, is this the norm for Red Hat or is linux still for the advanced user???? Thanks harold |
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