Grumbles
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Posted: Jan. 16 2006,11:08 |
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I'm new to linux and all this stuff, so talk slowly please. 
Ok, what I believe I am working with is a computer with a 533Mhz processor and a 2GB hard drive. the bios tells me that it has the capability to boot from a CD. Apart from that I don't know much about it. If you think it would help I can delve deeper.
The only problem with the parts I had scavenged was that half of the system files are missing, so I figured I would put some form of linux on it and have some fun with that.
So... i downloaded dsl-2.1b.iso and dsl-2.1b.iso.md5.txt and made a CD or two out of 'em
I've set up the BIOS to boot from the cd drive but when it starts to boot it says something sort of like "Booting from ATAPI CD-ROM:..." Pause. Whirring noises. " Failure."
That's about as far as I've gotten with it. It then goes on to try booting from the floppy or the hard drive.
I would try and boot from a floppy, but there are logistical problems. First off, I have no way to actually make the floppy. I can copy the program necessary to creating the floppy into the computer through DOS, but it lacks the ability to run win32. (the computer I'm using right now is an iBook) The only way I can see it happening is if I got a friend to make it then send me all the files in the formatted disk or just give me the disk.
And something I wasn't quite sure about... From this computer I can take the .iso file and decompile it into all its little components (boot, knoppix, lost+found and all that jazz) and then copy that data onto a CD-R or just copy the .iso file onto the CD. Neither worked better than the other. But just so I can eliminate one variable, which one is correct? or is there some special application that works on macs?
Yes... So... Any help would be appreciated. I'm running out of ideas.
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