Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:32 -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > > > > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > > help? Are you planning on > > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > > > > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I inte

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
It's Working!! Strange but this is what I did: I put my "Woody"-CD#1 and restarted my PC. It booted from the CD. ( ??) I shutdown the PC and then.. Then I put "Sarge"-CD#1 and now it is booting from the PC.. Problem solved but not sure how.. Thanks for all the fast responses from many of you..

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
> > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > help? Are you planning on > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I intend to wipe it all out/re-parition/re-install from scratch. This 2

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Kent West
Syed Huq wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
Syed Huq wrote: > > I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set > > the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). > > It is not booting from CD-Drive. > > > > I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any f

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Syed Huq wrote: > I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set > the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). > It is not booting from CD-Drive. > > I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I > can r

How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD-Drive or how

Re: 3.0: Booting From CD

2002-10-29 Thread Travis Crump
Michelle Storm wrote: Is there a way to boot an installed system from one of the Debian installation CDs? If you're asking what I believe you're asking. I had the same problem. I damaged my system somehow so it wouldn't boot on it's own, and had to figure a way to start the system from a cd. t

Re: 3.0: Booting From CD

2002-10-29 Thread Michelle Storm
> Is there a way to boot an installed system from one of the Debian > installation CDs? If you're asking what I believe you're asking. I had the same problem. I damaged my system somehow so it wouldn't boot on it's own, and had to figure a way to start the system from a cd. try booting from the

3.0: Booting From CD

2002-10-29 Thread geno
Is there a way to boot an installed system from one of the Debian installation CDs? Thanks. geno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: howto: booting from CD

1999-06-17 Thread Karl-Heinz Herrmann
On 17-Jun-99 James D. Freels wrote: > I have also configured the Adaptec BIOS to allow a bootable CD. > However, the scsi ID of the bootable image remains at ID=0 (the hard > drive). Hi, on my MB (Gigabyte) the AMIBios and the Adaptec Bios tricked each other -- The Bios knows how to boot CDROM (

howto: booting from CD

1999-06-17 Thread James D. Freels
I am running GNU/Linux Debian 2.1 with an Adaptec 2940 narrow PCI scsi card. Everything is working fine. I have three hard drives set at scsi ID 0, 1, and 2 and booting off of ID=0. I also have a Yamaha CRW 6940 rewritable cdrom drive on scsi ID=3 that is also working fine. I would like to cre

Re: [Debian] booting from CD

1999-02-24 Thread Patrik Hagglund
You put a bootable floppy disk on it. See the CD-Writing HOWTO section 4.11: http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/ -- Patrik Hägglund

[Debian] booting from CD

1999-02-23 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I want to create a bootable CD with a minimal runnable linux distribution on it. Any ideas on how to make a CD bootable? Thanks in advance, Nico -- --- system failure ... hit any user to continue ... -

Re: trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:34:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get >around this problem? (I tried Loadln with the file from the cd and got the >same results.) Obviously you don't have a problem booting from CD

trouble booting from CD

1999-02-16 Thread smarks
Hi, I have a ThinkPad 600. I can boot from the 2.0 CD OK. I hit return to begin install. Loading root.bin goes by ok. Next I see: Loading Linux.. That seems to complete, as the cursor moves to the next line. However, at this point, the machine hangs. Is there anything I can do to get ar

booting from CD

1997-12-23 Thread Aaron Brick
I have the Cheap-Bytes Debian CDs here and I'm trying to start up with them and install Debian on this OS-less machine. However, when I try to boot with the binary disc, after getting the "LDLINUX.SYS" version info line, it stops doing anything and doesn't respond to any keystrokes. Can anyone tel