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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,07:04 QUOTE
I have 4 HDs with the same problem. I know it is not the cpu. When I try booting dsl from the cdrom/cdrw it skips directly to the original win95/98 etc. So it is not like the HD is bad...any suggestions on how to boot/install DSL to the HD? Thanks!
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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,10:43 QUOTE
Could be a bios setting - set the bios boot sequence to boot the cd drive before any hard disk.
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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,05:10 QUOTE
Thanks I will try that!
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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,05:51 QUOTE
When I startup the computer I press all the keys that would normally take me into bios setting and it is almost like it doenst recognize what I am trying to do! It continues booting win95/98. If I boot from cd, the computer will recognize it. Can I boot from cd without a hard drive to get the dsl boot started, and then connect the hard drive? How can I get dsl to recognize that the hd is connected? I have tried using fdisk -l, cfdisk, among others all to no avail! This is really frustrating! fdisk -l doesnt do a thing it just moves down one line!! Any help would be much appreciated!!
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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,14:23 QUOTE
Make sure you are using root and that you are targetting the correct device.

Since your device is already useable, you can use `ls -l /mnt/*` to see if they are readily for use by DSL.
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