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Posted: Dec. 10 2005,03:30 QUOTE

Sarah,
You're sure like me - not most people, just special people. I used to live in the Pibara but now have moved to the big smoke.

OK. I've followed up the poorman's install and got to the stage where GRUB loded and gave me some options. Actually, it was the GRUB that I had set up to try the MEPIS distro and it was all ready to boot the MEPIS disk. However, it gave me the chance to edit that boot line or go to command mode. I went to command mode and tried to guess what I needed but to no avail.
I had already copied the CD over to the C: drive in Windows, staying at the root level so I tried to run from the /boot/isolinux but couldn't get the command right.

To answer your other question - No, I'm trying to get away from Windows. All I want to do on this system is run enough of Linux to let me run Audacity for multitrack recording and then transfer the file to my desktop via the ethernet link for burning to a CD.
Tony
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Posted: Dec. 11 2005,22:59 QUOTE

Yeeeaaah!!!!
I've got it working!
Following your advice, I did a poor man's install. Under Windows, I copied the contents of the live CD to C:
I then went to the WIKI and followed the instructions to make a boot floopy. I copied bootfloopy.img and rawwritewin-0.7.zip into a new folder and created the floppy from there.
Success!! with this boot floppy it booted first go - even gave me a choice of screen sizes, so I was able to settle for 800 x 600 which I new was good for this lappie.
It can even see my sound card although I haven't been able to test it yet.
Not sure if it can see my PCMCIA and the Xircom NIC, but I'm on my way.
A bit more testing and I'll be able to make the decision to install to the hard disk or not.
Thanks for the help
Tony
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Posted: Dec. 12 2005,03:26 QUOTE


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