Re: [newbie] boot problems

[F. E. Schaper]

Ron,   Thanks for the idea...tried that and the CD-Rom drive is not recognized...what really is getting me pissed about this whole thing is that the boot floppy is not being recognized...I've even tried to use my other box to burn off another one and it does not work either...I either get a "Library 2" error or a can not load library 16 error....   So, I guess the best thing to do at this point is to try to create a boot disk that has a cd rom driver on it so I can boot up dos with the cd and run the install from there. Anyone know where I can get such a utility?   If that does not work I'll chant f*ck Linux as I throw the box out the window and revert to my previous NT ways...   Thanx ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Greer To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 9:52 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] boot problems Well, I'm not sure why that's happening, but if your cdrom is working in DOS, you can always boot to dos, go to the cdrom drive (Ex, drive d:) and cd \dosutils\autoboot and run autoboot.bat       -=Ron=- -----Original Message----- From: F. E. Schaper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] boot problems Hey Guys,   I'm getting a strange error here. I originally setup my box to run Windows 98 and a Linux partition...the problem is that I didn't like the loopback it was way to slow for the setup I needed. So, I reformatted the hard drive (it's now a DOS drive) and attempted to reload Linux using a boot floppy (which I got with the software) and the cd....I checked the BIOS and have it set to boot A,C in sequence....of course now I can't get Linux to boot up...it won't recognize the boot disk and I am stuck with DOS!! (Which I am pretty sure won't work too well as a web server :-))   Any ideas?   Thanks,   Fritz