Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-21 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-20, Etienne Lorrain wrote: >> just used FreeDOS and gujin (tiny.exe) to install wheezy on >> an old laptop with no CD drive. > > "tiny.exe" in Gujin has been renamed to "mingujin.exe", found > precompiled in http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ standard-2.8.5.tar.gz. > For the network install

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-20 Thread Etienne Lorrain
> just used FreeDOS and gujin (tiny.exe) to install wheezy on > an old laptop with no CD drive. "tiny.exe" in Gujin has been renamed to "mingujin.exe", found precompiled in http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ standard-2.8.5.tar.gz. For the network install CD, I think you can boot a Gujin floopy ($ zcat

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-16, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions > of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. > I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the > kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeez

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:15:10 -0400 (EDT), Mike McClain wrote: > > I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions > of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. > I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the > kernel and initrd to C: and