Howard wrote:
Well, I guess it's ok if I ask then. I feel pretty stupid, I've never
downloaded a live cd iso before.
We all have felt that way sometime :( Nevermind, it will pass.. :)
I had the opportunity to stop by my son's and borrow his broadband and
got an iso today.
Wow! 760 kps , that is really something! Anyhow.... so I download
the lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-3.iso and burned it to a cd, so it's on
the cd by itself, alone , that's it. I thought that would be all you
need to do because I still can't see anything additional about burning
a bootable live cd here. Like I said, I've never done this before.
If I understand correctly, you burned a normal data cd, with the file
lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-3.iso on it? If so, that's why it won't start. You
need to burn it as an image file. Depending on the burning program you
use, there should be an entry in the menu to burn ISO or image files.
When I got back and tried it out , the boot just skips over it and
goes to my regular hd grub loader.
I was thinking that I had not made the cd correctly, but there can
also be a problem with the k6-2?
See above about the cd, as it's the most likely culprit. The processor
don't care about the booting, but the chipset on the motherboard does..
This cdrom has had other strange problems reading before like the
capability to read an open cd using that special reader (UDF?). I
thought it was cdrom specific, never occurred that it may be the cpu.
So anyhow, did I burn the cd correctly? Thanks, Howard
Have you ever booted a cd on that machine before? Like the W98 install
cd? If that worked, so will a proper image for the liveCD. If not, you
should check the boot priority in the BIOS. Normal setup would be:
floppy, cdrom, hd0 (or C: or primary master) in that order. Just make
sure CD come before HD. If you already have booted a cd before, then
nevermind about the BIOS ;) You need to burn the cd properly..
Other culprits on old machines I've personally have experienced is:
Hopelessly bad chipset that won't let you boot from cd-rom, and old
cd-rom that won't read the cd properly, and lastly bad cd-media that
almost no cd-rom will ever manage to read.
When you eventually get to boot the cd and enter the console, you can
start up 'lynx' (text based html browser) to start reading the LFS book
on the cd. Start up 'gpm' (General Purpose Mouse daemon) to cut and
paste the commands from lynx to a second console where you'll be
building the LFS system. And you can also configure X and start that one
up, as you can then open a lot of nice terminals ;)
And btw, you probably should set up a big swap partition when you're
building LFS, as especially GCC and Glibc require a substantially amount
of memory, and I don't think 128 MB would quite cut it. Try at least the
double amount of swap, but I would recommend 3-4 times the size of your RAM.
Hope it helps..
Tor Olav
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