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Topic: Help, booting problems, booting from live cd

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Lspace

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Posted: June 24 2005,00:09

Hi,
I have made a live cd (it works on other machines) but my pc (pentium 133 Win98) refuses to recognize it as a bootable cd.
It does recognize a win98 cd as such.

what could be wrong?

P.S. I'm a total newbie at this

SaidinUnleashed Offline

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Posted: June 24 2005,03:42

Try one of the boot floppies. Look in the current/ directory of any of the mirrors.

Or you can use Smart Boot Manager. It works just as good and a lot faster.

http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

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roberts

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Posted: June 24 2005,03:52

Try downloading and burning the syslinux version of DSL. It is made for older machines that refuse to boot from the "standard" dsl.iso which happens to be isolinux.

Lspace
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Posted: June 24 2005,11:00

Thanks,
I'll go for the syslinux option since my floppy drive has died on me some time ago and I still haven't got round to reving it.

I'll let you know how it turns out

Ibrahim
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Posted: June 27 2005,04:40

i had some problems with it too, checking out the syslinux version.

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