Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:37:39 +0200
From: "Robbert J. van Herksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: 70CT bios question
Mike,
Quote: "RedHat7.1 installed flawlessly on my Lib70 from CD"
But you told me that the floppy didn't work.......
BTW: I'm still struggling with the Xserver that doesn't want to start.
Help!!
rgds
Robbert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 15:30
> To: Libretto
> Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
>
>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:25:07 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
> From: Michael J Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
>
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, venture wrote:
> > I got my Libretto some years back in Japan and it sports Win95 version
> > 2 in Japanese. I want to get rid of Win95 and replace it with Linux.
> > However, in those intervening years my floppy disk and my faxmodem
> > card were wrecked in an accident. Thus the only way to get new
> > software on my computer is via CD-rom. I'm wondering if it is
> > possible to set the bios so that it boots from the CD-rom? I looked
> > at the settings and it appears that I can only set the Hard Drive
> > Priority (namely FDD -> HDD or HDD-> FDD). Can I make it boot from
> > the CD-Rom?
>
> No, AFAIK you can't boot from cdrom.
>
> But - RedHat7.1 installed flawlessly on my Lib70 from CD (in DOS, copy
> loadlin.exe, vmlinuz and initrd.img from \dosutils to a FAT partition,
> then run "loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img" and you're on your way!).
>
> (Note: others have had problems with RedHat7.0 installation, so be sure
> to get 7.1.)
>
> Mike
>
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