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cphp

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Posted: Mar. 29 2005,13:22

I tried again, here's what I did:

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1.) turned off computer
2.) Started it up
3.) Went to Setup
4.) Went to boot sequence -- looked like this:
1.) IDE CD-ROM Device (enabled)
2.) Diskette Drive (enabled)
3.) Hard-Disk Drive C:
5.) Exit boot sequence
6.) Exit setup
7.) Try again

Here's what I got:

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Cannot Load DOS! Any key to retry

What is wrong?? please. . . . help. . . .*despair* lol Anyway, it would be nice if anyone knows what's wrong

cphp

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Posted: Mar. 29 2005,14:25

I'm typing this from DSL embedded, but I still don't know how to boot, and DSL-embedded is so SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW.

Can I boot from DSL embedded? I mean make a CD of the files on the DSL-embedded and boot from there? Or if you know what I did wrong from above. . .please help

mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 29 2005,15:14

the boot sequence is correct.
I don't know what "cannot load dos" means. If you reboot with the CD in the drive it should automatically begin to boot DSL, without any DOS or Windows necessary. How did you burn the ISO?

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cphp

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Posted: Mar. 29 2005,15:21

I opened up CDBurner XP Pro, I selected teh ISO, I clicked Burn and selected Bootable (and the n the option for Windows XP/NT because that's what I have). I selected 16x for my speed, and started it going.

Do I reboot (i.e., click re-start) or do I shut offand turn on? or does it matter?

mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 29 2005,15:47

So....you created a bootable CD containing the ISO file? If so, you just made yourself a backup of the ISO file.

The ISO is a CD image which needs to be burned AS an image, rather than being burned onto a disk as data. You don't typically need to be concerned about making it bootable because i think that information is already in the ISO file.
I don't know anything about the software you used, but the "pro" part makes me think that it should handle cd images. Is there something in the menu similar to "Burn CD image"?

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