From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 04 10:12:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 4 Sep 2001 17:12:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 16596 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 16:53:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Sep 2001 16:53:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 16:53:18 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15eJRq-00089y-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:53:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:53:14 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An asbestos question about Linux from scratch Message-ID: <20010904095314.F9009@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <99.1a1b9693.28c6434b@aol.com> <0109041112040L.05217@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0109041112040L.05217@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:12:04AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 10:46, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > 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? > > la .uindoz. cu zgana la me FAT poi datnysroci'e po'o .ije la'a le > cukyvelvei cu se tarmi la me EXT2 Nothing to do with it. These are supposed to be boot floppies, the filesystem is irrelevant. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/