Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-21 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-20, Etienne Lorrain wrote: just used FreeDOS and gujin (tiny.exe) to install wheezy on an old laptop with no CD drive. tiny.exe in Gujin has been renamed to mingujin.exe, found precompiled in http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ standard-2.8.5.tar.gz. For the network install CD, I think

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-20 Thread Etienne Lorrain
just used FreeDOS and gujin (tiny.exe) to install wheezy on an old laptop with no CD drive. tiny.exe in Gujin has been renamed to mingujin.exe, found precompiled in http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ standard-2.8.5.tar.gz. For the network install CD, I think you can boot a Gujin floopy ($ zcat

Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Mike McClain
I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeeze but it just resets the computer. It's a

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:15:10 -0400 (EDT), Mike McClain wrote: I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the kernel and initrd to C: and

Re: Debian 6.0.5 and loadlin

2012-06-16 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-16, Mike McClain wrote: I'm accustomed to running loadlin to launch different versions of Linux from dos and it's worked dependably for me for many years. I installed a copy of squeeze yesterday on a partition, copied the kernel and initrd to C: and tried to boot into squeeze