avoura
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Posted: Feb. 06 2007,13:48 |
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I want to run DSL on my old laptop (Pentium 90 MHz) which already has Windows 98SE installed on a single hard disk, which cannot boot from CD. So I found instructions on the DSL wiki pages (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install, to use Loadlin.exe to boot DSL from files placed on the hard disk. I followed the instructions but cannot get it to work.
I put the necessary lines of code into config.sys and created options.txt, but when the PC boots, and it loads the config.sys menu with windows and linux, I select linux and it starts to boot but then states it cannot find the kernel image.
So I tried it the other way that was mentioned, i.e. after it gets to the menu, I go the command prompt (pressing SHIFT-F5 to get to the DOS prompt), and go into the isolinux directory, and then run the command "loadlin @options.txt" and it then does load, although as the PC is slow it takes ages to load.
Any ideas why it will not work from the config.sys file, i.e.
shell=c:\isolinux\loadlin.exe @c:\isolinux\options.txt
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