-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:39:16AM +0530, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: > > Please quote as if you're in a conversation. > > http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html > > ok .. i tried doing that only but i guess i missed out on a line or two here > and there but i've been in front of the monitor for 8 straight hours now ...
No problem. It's been kinda rampant lately, so I've been forgetting who I've already mentioned it to. > i don't think u've understood my problem exactly. i am trying to load debian > from the harddisk of a computer which only has windows NT (i have one FAT16 > partition though on which the installation files have been dumped ... as the > debian installation manual says). googling helped me in that if i had a > win9x box..i would have been able to install linux but i want to do this in > NT ... and all solutions loadlin etc. require real mode DOS. Ah, OK. I think this is where I suffered burnout myself. If you mentioned it before, it just didn't click. You may be SOL in this case, however, I did find Linux+WindowsNT HOWTO on TLDP. Have you seen it yet? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+WinNT.html > please don't get me wrong but i'm now plain frustrated with this. i don't > understand why loadlin or a similar program can't run under NT. or why XOSL > or some other boot loader can't be installed from NT. NT bootloader is hella-weird. NT, unlike other Microsoft OSes, also pretends to have something approaching memory management, so that rules out Loadlin, which basically stomps over the memory occupied by Windows to work, as I understand it, which is why when you run it from anywhere but a genuine DOS prompt Windows complains about not being shut down right. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3sw4J5vLSqVpK2kRAmaAAKCj/0TPk8+rn3g9GxdbfUepn+PezACeM72P Er8qb7uDWyj7x+223xDiFls= =RG7z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
