[wplug] Newbie alert - install help

yankoc yankoc at attbi.com
Tue Jan 22 08:50:16 EST 2002


on 1/21/02 6:36 AM, Weber, Larry A at laweber at switch.com wrote:

> in the same directory as your boot image file should be a program called
> rawwrite.  Run it and allow it to create the boot image disk you need.  If I
> remember right rawwrite will prompt you for an image file and for the letter
> of your floppy drive.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: yankoc [SMTP:yankoc at attbi.com]
>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:31 AM
>> To: wplug at wplug.org
>> Subject: [wplug] Newbie alert - install help
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm brand new to Linux, just having bought the linux professional package.
>> My PC won't recognize the cd as a boot disk, even if I change the bios
>> settings to boot from CD.
>> 
>> I know that the boot image is on CD1 in the images folder... when I try to
>> first format a floppy under the current system (NT) then copy 'boot.img'
>> from the cd to it, I get the message that the floppy isn't big enough to
>> contain the image. Its a 1.44mb floppy.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what else to try to get the installation started.
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions!
>> 
>> -Chris
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> wplug mailing list
>> wplug at wplug.org
>> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug

Thanks Larry, that did the trick! Everything's up and running. Now all I
have to do is learn, learn, learn.

-Chris




More information about the wplug mailing list