Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 21:32 -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > > > > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > > help? Are you planning on > > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > > > > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I inte

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
It's Working!! Strange but this is what I did: I put my "Woody"-CD#1 and restarted my PC. It booted from the CD. ( ??) I shutdown the PC and then.. Then I put "Sarge"-CD#1 and now it is booting from the PC.. Problem solved but not sure how.. Thanks for all the fast responses from many of you..

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
> > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > help? Are you planning on > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I intend to wipe it all out/re-parition/re-install from scratch. This 2

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Kent West
Syed Huq wrote: Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD-

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
The ./install/floppy dir has some .img file. I do not have a floppy drive. So still not sure how to run the installer... Isn;t there any type of a .bat file I could run to envoke the installer ? - Rathon On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:08:44 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Syed Huq wrote

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Joey Hess
Syed Huq wrote: > I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set > the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). > It is not booting from CD-Drive. > > I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I > can run to make it boot fro

How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD-Drive or how t