Re: [Freedos-user] [super long subject line]

2013-06-26 Thread TJ Edmister
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:45 -0400, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: ... My first question is, what OS is currently installed on your machine? Second, can it boot from LAN? If you are trying to install Linux from Windows you should look into a thing called wubi:

Re: [Freedos-user] [super long subject line]

2013-06-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:32 AM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:45 -0400, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: If you are trying to install Linux from Windows you should look into a thing called wubi:

Re: [Freedos-user] I have a machine from '04 ...

2013-06-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:45 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: I have a machine from '04, and to my dismay, the boot order is greyed out and cannot be altered. This means I cannot boot from my external dvd drive or flash drive. Neither can I swap the external drive(sata) for the cd

[Freedos-user] shorter subject line.

2013-06-26 Thread kurt godel
Forgive the boobing of the subject line; and to make myself clearer: I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that exquisiitley. Imagine you have an old w98 install cd. You could install from the disk, but it is more efficient to *copy* the files from the install cd to a