Hi Michael,
My tried and true method for old dossers is
boot dos including dos cdrom drivers & mscdex,
d: ( or whichever drive is your CD )
cd install
type install.txt | more ( gives some install information )
boot
( now your in the install program )
> When you enter "parameters" you must also include the kernel name. such as
> "linux" (I cant remember if that is the name used on the install floppies)
>
> so:
>
> LILO boot: linux [parameters]
>
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, John wrote:
>
> > I have a spare machine onto which I am trying to install 2.0 r3. The
> > machine has
> > a
> > Pentium MMX166 processor, two hard drives (one 426Mb with DOS 6.2 and W3.11:
> > the other 1.1Gb empty and available for Linux), 32Mb FPM physical RAM, 1.44
> > Floppy,
> > 32x CD-ROM Drive, an S3 Virge/DX(PCI) Video Card and an SB compat Sound Card
> > the Monitor is SVGA.
> >
> > The Motherboard is TX/1 and the BIOS Award which supports CD-ROM booting,
> > both
> > Hard Drives are on the Primary and the CD-ROM is Master on the Secondary.
> >
> > I have little computer experience (although now reasonably knowledgeable
> > with
> > W95),
> > am new to DOS and a complete newbie with Linux - also I'm old. I've turned
> > to
> > Linux
> > for interest and to avoid these persistent 'blue screens' on the main
> > machine.
> >
> > I possess two sets of distributions acquired with Samms introductory book
> > and
> > WGS
> > Encyclopadia and can install RedHat and SuSE, but not Debian which may well
> > be
> > the distribution best suited to me. Both the InfoMagic and Linux Mall discs
> > are
> > of
> > the same version and each gives identical results.
> >
> > Booting direct from the CD-Rom Drive loads Root.bin and Linux, but whatever
> > I do
> > at
> > the boot prompt puts me into a continual rebooting cycle. I've tried all the
> > parameters
> > referred and alluded to in the help files and books. A straight <enter>
> > goes to
> > reboot
> > (after some uncompressing too rapid to read). Adding parameters results in
> > 'can't
> > find kernel'.
> >
> > I've created floppies from files downloaded from ftp.debian (RSC1440.bin,
> > DRV1440.bin, Base-1.bin to Base-5.bin and Root.bin). Booting with
> > RSC1440.bin
> > in the floppy drive puts me into the same automatic rebooting cycle and no
> > parameters
> > work - the 'can't find' message is displayed. I getthe chance to use only
> > one
> > disk.
> >
> > Can anyone, kindly, explain what I'm failing to comprehend or what I'm doing
> > wrong.
> > I would appreciate help (otherwise I may be stuck with Mr Gate's water
> > torture!).
> > Incidentally, to check if some machine fault has developed, I've again
> > booted
> > SuSE
> > from the CD-ROM Drive and I got direct to the installation program.
> > John.
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Cheers,
Colin Tree
