n00b question about installing on win95

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: n00b question about installing on win95
started by: Dylan

Posted by Dylan on Oct. 09 2004,20:13

ok i downlaoded and made a cd of dambsmalllinux so i could install it on my windows 95. however it doenst run when i stick it in the cd drive. I think i need to make the computer boot from the d:\ but how do i change it ? from the A:\ to D:\ ? please help me so i can mess with linux as ive never used it and ive heard so many people use it and love it ... help apreiciated

Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 09 2004,22:41

Try downloading and creating a boot floppy image.

Check the website notes and search the forums for more details.

Posted by WoofyDugfock on Oct. 11 2004,11:45

Dylan - do you mean you are puttting the cd in the cdrom drive while in Win95 and rebooting, then finding that your pc does not boot into dsl from the cd?

If so, you can change the boot order in your BIOS. To do this, hold down (usually) the delete key while booting up. You should see the BIOS boot options screen. Look around this and you should find how to change the boot order with yout TAB key so the pc looks at your cdrom first for a bootable OS, and if that fails it then looks at your HD.

With some machines it's not the delete key - use google.

Posted by DaCuBaN on Oct. 11 2004,11:49

If it's a Toshiba Laptop, holding Esc during POST will take you to the BIOS screen. As Cbagger suggested, use the boot floppy disks (can be found within the dsl iso image) and reboot the computer - it should automatically pick up the CDROM drive once started, and boot accordingly

Best of luck :cool:

Posted by Dylan on Oct. 11 2004,19:49

Thanks ill try