> Forgive me if I am suggesting what is already obvious. I don't know > your level of familiarity...
it would probably help if i let people know that i am fairly familiar with linux... :) > Did you match case when you created these directories? images-1.44 > is not the same as Images-1.44. Also, is the installer looking for > a relative path or an absolute path? If relative, is images-1.44 in > the directory where you started. i had all right... which is why i was so confused... what worked was mounting the dos partition that the files were in first and pointing it at the mount point, rather then trying to point linux at the dos partition... > (I don't have full context, but it sounds like you are doing a > 'loadlin' boot from an MS-DOS file system. I got that to work, > but it took me a couple of tries to get the files in the right place.) yeah, the boot floppies are useless with the external pcmcia floppy drive... i installed redhat, then used that to create a dos partition and ftp the files into it, then bootstrap the install out of that... later marty "I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam
