From pycyn@aol.com Tue Sep 04 07:56:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 4 Sep 2001 14:56:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 77579 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 14:46:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Sep 2001 14:46:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m05.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.8) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 14:46:42 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.99.1a1b9693 (1758) for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <99.1a1b9693.28c6434b@aol.com> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:46:35 EDT Subject: An asbestos question about Linux from scratch To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_99.1a1b9693.28c6434b_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 10432 --part1_99.1a1b9693.28c6434b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So I get this Linux cd (my Windows C compiler inhaleth mightily) and it says to copy boot.img, and supp.img and rawrite.exe to a temp file on my harddisk, then use rawrite to copy image and supp to floppies. Having done that, and rebooted with image disk in A, I am back in Windows ME and a quick check tells me that the floppy I formatted just before loading image is unformatted (Want to format it now?). Any educated (hell, ignorant would help) guesses about wha'hoppen? --part1_99.1a1b9693.28c6434b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So I get this Linux cd (my Windows C compiler inhaleth mightily) and it says
to copy boot.img, and supp.img and rawrite.exe to a temp file on my harddisk,
then use rawrite to copy image and supp to floppies. Having done that, and
rebooted with image disk in A, I am back in Windows ME and a quick check
tells me that the floppy I formatted just before loading image is unformatted
(Want to format it now?).

Any educated (hell, ignorant would help) guesses about wha'hoppen? --part1_99.1a1b9693.28c6434b_boundary--