Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
 

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: wont boot off of a floppy, need some help< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
temak82 Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: Nov. 2005
Posted: Nov. 01 2005,01:08 QUOTE

Hello, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I didn't see a forum just for floppy,

I am trying to install DSL on a p1 120mhz 2gb hd compaq laptop. I am using a floppy that I made into a boot through rawwrite successfully.

So, when I put the disk in, it loads, then I hit enter at boot: and it starts loading.

I get 2 errors, the first one is when linux24 loads and then minirt24.gz is loading, then it says:
Boot failed: please change disks....

So, I just tried it again and for some reason it worked, I got further up ahead, however, I get the error that says:

Knoppix filesystem is not installed.

I am not sure what to do there. I saw someone changed something in their BIOS, but I don't even know how to get to the BIOS on this computer. I tried hitting the F2, the F10 and the Delete keys after the boot up, but never get in.

Any ideas about this?

Thanks


--------------
AYKsolutions.com  
Hosting & Web Design
Professional. Painless. Polite.
Back to top
Profile PM WEB ICQ AOL MSN YIM 
temak82 Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: Nov. 2005
Posted: Nov. 01 2005,01:29 QUOTE

well, maybe it'll help if I have debian running as the OS. I currently had RH7 installed, with GNOME, unsuccessfully due to resource constraints.

--------------
AYKsolutions.com  
Hosting & Web Design
Professional. Painless. Polite.
Back to top
Profile PM WEB ICQ AOL MSN YIM 
1 replies since Nov. 01 2005,01:08 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 
reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: wont boot off of a floppy

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code