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Gadabout

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Posted: May 05 2006,15:10

New for sure. I have a old 166 with 32 meg of ram that I can run dsl live cd on but tried to do hd install and got all the way through untill it said " ready to reboot" or something like that. The cd door opens and then everything just stops. I should also say that I can only run syslinux type cd as nothing else boots. Any help would be great and if you need more info let me know. Thanks

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Posted: May 06 2006,11:01

Then the reboot what happens? Any error message?
Which were their installation steps exactly?

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Posted: May 08 2006,14:28

I'm sorry. I have to power it down manually and try to boot but get a "no operating system please insert disk to boot" type error. I know I have changed the boot sector so Win95 will no longer boot and that is ok. I was thinking that I need to partition the whole drive and tried gparted over the weekend but it wouldn't boot up on that machine. Any ideas would be nice. Thanks

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Posted: May 08 2006,21:00

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"no operating system please insert disk to boot"

The old computers can't boot from CDROM drive. They can boot only from hard disk and floppy drive but fortunately there are a solution: Create a DSL boot floppy. Here how: to:Boot Floppies
Then reboot your computer with the floppy disk and DSL LiveCD into the respective drives. The boot floppy will redirect boot process towards the DSL LiveCD.

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Posted: May 09 2006,12:55

I am booting from live cd with syslinux dsl. It's the hard drive that is screwed up from the hd install from the dsl disk. I think I need help with commands that will reformat the hd but it must be done from the dsl disk as nothing else boots up. I tried to use cfdisk and fdisk but get errors that blow me out of the shell, something like "fatal error press enter to return to something" I have seen other people in this forum with this same error. I tried their fix to no avail. Thanks for any help.

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