From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 04 10:13:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 4 Sep 2001 17:13:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 33334 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2001 16:52:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 4 Sep 2001 16:52:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 4 Sep 2001 16:52:37 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15eJRB-00089h-00 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:52:33 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:52:33 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An asbestos question about Linux from scratch Message-ID: <20010904095233.E9009@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <99.1a1b9693.28c6434b@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <99.1a1b9693.28c6434b@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:46:35AM -0400, 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? Your BIOS is set to boot from C: before A:, hence bypassing the boot floppy entirely. -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/