>>>>> "John" == John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>> I recently purchased the Linux Mandrake package from Sams, comes with 3 Cd's
>> and a boot floppy. I moved some things in my office arround and have
>> misplaced the floppy. Since my machine will not boot from the CD I
>> deperately need the floppy. Is there a way to take the files I need from
>> the cd, or make a boot disk, download a copy of the boot disk.... anything?
>> Please advise.
>>
John> In the /dosutils directory is a program called
John> "rawrite.exe." Load that onto a Windows PC, then, take the
John> CD and get the "boot.img" file and a blank floppy. Then,
John> load rawrite from DOS prompt tell it you want to use
John> boot.img and then it should automatically tell you to put
John> your blank floppy in a:. From there, it should be
John> self-explanatory. :-)
And when you do get linux booted, run "mkbootdisk" to make a real boot
disk for your system.
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