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cc:(bcc: John J Neff/Colad Group)
Subject: Fixing the Master Boot Record
Hi everybody,
In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM
Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios
first. So, for t
ser Mailing List , Debian
Laptop Mailing List
cc:(bcc: John J Neff/Colad Group)
Subject: Fixing the Master Boot Record
Hi everybody,
In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM
Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios
first. So, for t
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in
> the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error
> message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in
> the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error
> message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems,
I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be
extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page).
Thanks,
Bryan
***
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems,
I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be
extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page).
Thanks,
Bryan
***
Hi Bryan;
First, you did not need to do anything to your mbr.
Your machine was just responding to the fact that the floppy that
you had in the drive was not a bootable floppy.
It sounds as though you need to create a bootable DOS floppy.
I presume based on what you have said that your machine
Hi Bryan;
First, you did not need to do anything to your mbr.
Your machine was just responding to the fact that the floppy that
you had in the drive was not a bootable floppy.
It sounds as though you need to create a bootable DOS floppy.
I presume based on what you have said that your machine
Hi everybody,
In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM
Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios
first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I
downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. T
Hi everybody,
In trying to get Slink installed successfully on my laptop (IBM
Thinkpag 390E) I have learned that it is important to upgrade the Bios
first. So, for the short term, I am taking some steps backwards. I
downloaded a bios upgrade program on to a diskkette from IBM's website. T
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