On 1 Jul 00, at 13:36, Marcia Waller wrote:
> setup is C,A,SCSI. Should not that be changed to the floppy first and
Is your hdd SCSI? Maybe not. Maybe its an IDE.
> how do I do that? I am a true newbie and have not done much on the Setup
At the BIOS option where you have C,a,SCSI written, scroll through
the list with the NumKeypad + or the PageUP/DN keys. One of them
should work. Change it, so that the order now reads A,C,
whatever.Now, your system will boot off the floppy first, if there's
a system disk in the fdd.
> screen. Also, may I install by graphical installation or text
> installation through MS-DOS? I have made the floppy for graphical with
> rawrite but how do I do it for text installation? I have already done
Grphical installation is flashy, and intuitive. The text install can
reduce install times by more than half, and though not very self
explanatory, is quite easy. To go the text install way, create a boot
disk using rawrite.exe with txt_boot.img.
> as text installation through DOS without uninstalling bootmagic or
> partition magic? I appreciate your help with this. I have contacted
Since you've already partitioned your hdd, go ahead and install. Just
take care that if you have some important data in the Windows
partition, it has been backed up. The loadlin based linux install
script from DOS will drop you into the install program anyway, so you
had better boot from the floppy.
> I appreciate anyone's input. I do have a Pentium 200 MHZ with 2 IDE hard
> drives one with 2.5 gigs and the other with over 8 gigs. I have 96 megs
That is a great setup. The graphical setup program needs 32 MB RAM
work, so it should be easy enough.
Go ahead. Install:]
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