John Nall 17:41 2005-10-02:
>(Linux first agreeably partitioned the hard disk for me, and then announced that it could not run on this hardware configuration and aborted.)
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>The bios does not support booting from a CD-ROM.

I had that problem, plus that CD and floppy was in bays so I could put int the floppy drive and boot on a floppy, but then I had no CD...

So i booted on some DOS (MSDOS FreeDOS) and installed that including CD driver to boot on the HD, then put in the CD, rebooted on HD, just to install another system on the HD...

Another method i have used later is to connect the HD to my desktop PC through an 3,5" to 2,5" IDE adapter, and i can prepare the HD with partitiononing, formatting, boot files, and install files, data files before putting it in the Craptop.

/Morgan
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Morgan Olsson, Kivik, Sweden

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