Installing on a newly formatted drive

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Installing on a newly formatted drive
started by: Josiah

Posted by Josiah on Aug. 02 2006,00:01

Hi all, I have an old HP that was running windows 98. I had been using the live CD to boot into DSL just to play around. I decided I wanted to do a full install, and I had no need for the windows system.

I used a windows 98 boot floppy as per < here > to format my the drive.

The computer will boot to BIOS and then to an options menu that allows me to "Start with CD-ROM support." When I select this option, I drop into an A:\ prompt. This is as far as I go.

How do I get DSL to boot from the live CD?

Posted by brianw on Aug. 02 2006,01:28

Here is the info on installing from a boot floppy.

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies >

Posted by Josiah on Aug. 02 2006,06:36

Thank you for your help, but I figured it out. I did a bad job of explaining my problem. The computer would not boot to BIOS without the windows boot floppy. This didn't make sense to me.

I tried it again and for no apparent reason it worked. Now I'm going to work on doing a real install.