Question about CD

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Topic: Question about CD
started by: Thanatos

Posted by Thanatos on July 29 2004,00:15

I am going to try & send for the full CD the first of August. I am running Win98SE & won't give it up. I'm a power-user in DOS & most windows. I wanted to know if I could install from the CD to my second partition on my main drive (hda5)? Then set up lilo for a bootmanager to multi-boot. I want my 98SE, XP & at least one copy of Linux. Will I be able to do that from the CD?? Thanks for any help.

Posted by AwPhuch on July 29 2004,17:01

Quote (Thanatos @ July 28 2004,20:15)

yes!!

In fact I have my laptop "rednecked" triple boot...

Here is my setup
hda1 [fat32] 60 megs (Knoppix dir for frugal boot with floppy)
hda2 [NTFS] 5 gigs (Win2000) partition
hda3 [ext3] 5 gigs (Fedora Core 1) partition

my system has grub that dual boots fedora and windows
if i want to play with dsl I just pop in a boot floppy and pow

three operating systems but it only shows 2...

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by ke4nt1 on July 29 2004,17:35

Now, with the changes made to 0.7.3,
my grub loader works with DSL just fine...

I was using grub to boot pre 0.7.1, but when I
switched to 0.7.2, grub gave me issues..

All is much better now.. Problem solved..

73
ke4nt

Posted by roberts on July 29 2004,18:07

I think he was asking about lilo. Since version 0.6.x DSL version of lilo has been able to dual boot with win98 and/or winXP. Prior versions 0.5.x would only support win98. I have one machine with a full hard drive install of DSL using lilo that is part of the installation and it dual boots with winXP. I personally don't have a machine with triple boot.

Posted by lostcity on Aug. 02 2004,20:02

Quote (AwPhuch @ July 29 2004,13:01)

Quote (Thanatos @ July 28 2004,20:15)

'sounds like a great idea, how did you set up the boot floppy? Most boot imgs are 1.4megs and I can only get my floppy to accept 1.38!

Thanks

Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 02 2004,20:41

Sounds like you've got a floppy with a few bad sectors in it.

Try a new,fresh floppy.. 1440k should be no problem with a fresh floppy.

Tomsrtbt formats and copies over 1770 to the floppy disk
when your making his distro boot floppy..

73
ke4nt

Posted by Thanatos on Aug. 05 2004,15:08

I've got an old utility from Win95 days called GRDuw, made by GRSoft. I got it off my old ISP (www.lctn.com) in their utilities. I just checked & they don't have it anymore. It reformats a regular floppy to hold 1.66M. I will try that other program & see if it works better.

I am going to try one more time to make a DSL CD. I messed it up the first time, but I am using a RW CD that I can rerecord on. I don't have a cd burner, so step-father is letting me use his dsl hook-up & cd burner. The DSL image is still in my folder on his computer. I figured I booboo the first round. Let you know next week how it goes. Thanks.

Posted by Thanatos on Aug. 05 2004,15:35

I did some digging & found it at this address at winsite: < http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000011914 > . It's a little crude, but works pretty good.

Posted by AwPhuch on Aug. 05 2004,21:03

Why do that

rawwritewin will burn an image of the floppy...and the boot floppy is already in the cd iso...

if you want a copy of rawwritewin to to < http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm >

Brian
AwPhuch