Gareth Howell wrote: > > I had a strange problem installing Dachstein today. The hardware was a Dell > Dimension XPS. The machine would boot from a Windows CD, but for some reason > it would not boot from the Dachstein CD I had created, and tested, on > another Dell. > I created a boot floppy, but that wouldn't recognise the CD either. > In the end I used a Dachstein floppy distribution, but I can't figure out > what was wrong. > > The CD booted OK on another Dell workstation and on my laptop - this would > seem to rule out a duff CD > A Windows CD booted OK on the offending Dell workstation - this would seem > to rule out duff hardware.
DCD assumes that your cd-rom is /dev/hda. That means that it is configured as Primary Master, or primary on the first ide controller on your mainboard. It can be configured otherwise; but, it is simpler to change the system configuration. HTH -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
