On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jordan Cooper wrote: > I had a problem during a cd install on my old 486. I partitioned the > drive and when debian tried to mount the drive it hung. I rebooted and > my dos partition is gone. Now I have no system so I can't get the > machine to recognize the cd drive (that I just installed specifically to > install debian). > > Is there any way to install debian from the cd without msdos on my > computer? probably your bios is too old to directly boot from the cd, especially, if the cd-drive is not atapi-compliant. you can create debian boot disks using another computer.
> Can debian recognize the cd without dos? of course (if it is supported at all, but probably it is) - just create boot disks. > I have an american > megatrends motherboard and there's no boot from cd option in the bios > setup. > aha - the answer for the boot-cd? question ... :-) -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
